Having learned of a Pending Comment Period on Plans to Expand the Contaminants tracked in accordance with the Safe Water Drinking Act, SFLA Fights for Crystal Clear Water for All Americans

“The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the regulatory authority and humane responsibility to determine the extent of abortion water pollution, caused by the reckless and negligent policies pushed by past administrations through the Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Take the word ‘abortion’ out of it, and ask, should chemically tainted blood and placenta tissue, along with human remains, be flushed by the TONS into America’s waterways? And since the federal government set that up, shouldn’t we know what’s in our water?” said Students for Life of America’s Kristan Hawkins. “All I want for Christmas is for millions of Americans to let the Trump Administration know that we want assurances that the Make America Healthy Again agenda includes clean water for all life.”

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WASHINGTON D.C. (12-09-2025) – Having led the fight against the expansion and reckless distribution of Chemical Abortion Pills, Students for Life of America (SFLA) President Kristan Hawkins noted that in advance of an expected comment period related to the Safe Water Drinking Act, SFLA has launched a comment collection project. SFLA has been working for federal and state legislation to restrain the number one method and means of abortion, directed efforts at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 8 citizen petitions, lead a legal fight in amicus briefs related to violations of the Endangered Species Act, and part of a comprehensive campaign, and reached out to the Trump Administration, specifically including Health & Human Services (HHS), the FDA, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 

“In one pivotal meeting SFLA’s leadership team had with the EPA, we learned that the contaminants list tracked by the EPA was going to be open for public comments, as part of a planned expansion. Our message to the EPA: You need a few more. We are asking people across the country to demand that the active metabolites of Mifepristone, or any generic drug, which are the first of the two-drug protocol used to kill preborn babies, be tracked as dangerous forever chemicals,” said Hawkins. 

Agencies make rules that have the power of law, but, before they go into effect, Americans can submit comments on the idea – stating their support or opposition. As the comment period is anticipated to be opened during the holiday season, SFLA has set up an informational campaign and website to collect and then deliver the comments, when the comment period is opened at the federal registry. An expanded contaminants list will be published, based on the regulatory authority of the Safe Water Drinking Act. Time will be of the essence, as usually people have only 30 days to register their views on any given regulation.

“Especially at Christmas time, when we celebrate the birth of a baby who came to save us all, we are asking Americans to take a moment to fight for all the lives who could be lost and to demand that the Trump Administration do the work neglected by the Biden, Obama, and Clinton Administrations,” said Hawkins. “We are asking the EPA to rise to the challenge of finding out the scope of the damage caused by reckless, negligent, pro-abortion bias at the FDA in past administrations.”

TO MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT THE NEED TO TRACK MIFEPRISTONE (generic or brand name) & ITS DANGEROUS ACTIVE METABOLITES IN OUR WATER, CLICK HERE.

The Pro-Life Generation is asking the EPA to add to the contaminants list the active components of Mifepristone, along with any generic look alike, which include monodemethylated, didemethylated, and hydroxylated metabolites, all of which retain considerable affinity toward human progesterone and glucocorticoid receptors … That means they have the ability to block needed progesterone.

There is no National Abortion Reporting Law, but, if you believe the abortion industry math from the Planned Parenthood-founded Guttmacher Institute, using their calculations, each year, more than 50 TONS of chemically tainted blood and placenta tissue – along with human remains – are primarily flushed into America’s waterways.

MORE BACKGROUND ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS:

In two letters (here and here) in the last two session of Congress, legislators, including leaders like Marco Rubio while he was a U.S. Senator, have called on the EPA to exercise your authority to find out the extent of the damage of abortion water pollution. It’s a problem only the EPA can fully investigate.

Last year, many pro-life and pro-family organizations joined together to asked for the EPA to look at the forever chemicals of Chemical Abortion Pills before it’s too late, writing: “In light of this effort, we urge you (at the EPA) to conduct regular and comprehensive environmental testing for the presence of the abortion drug mifepristone in the same manner as testing is conducted for ‘forever chemicals’ or PFAS chemicals. This data is needed to assess potential environmental harms from exposing aquatic animal and plant life and the people relying on them to mifepristone.”

This data is needed in light of the FDA’s horrifying track record of deregulation without testing. 

When the FDA made significant changes to the Mifepristone regimen and REMS in 2016, 2019, 2021, and 2023, and approved a new generic in 2025, the agency failed to conduct any Clean Water Act (CWA) review or National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) environmental assessment, needed because of the “substantial change” in which Chemical Abortion Pills are now distributed and used. This failure flies in the face of the CWA and must be corrected immediately—especially in light of the FDA’s removal of the in-person dispensing requirement and adding another generic to the market, which further opened up the floodgates to do-it-yourself abortions at home and disposal of Mifepristone and its look-alikes directly into our nation’s water supply.

While this issue is not connected to a tragic miscarriage, which is not induced with deadly drugs, allowing an endocrine disruptor into our waterways may be harming our fertility. 

As detailed in a 2023 New York Times profile titled “The Father of the Abortion Pill,” the  French researcher, Dr. Étienne-Émile Baulieu, wanted to make an abortion drug. They reported: “The hormone progesterone is pivotal in pregnancy because it prepares the uterus to receive and hold an embryo. What if progesterone could be prevented from delivering its cellular messages? ‘I wanted to create an anti-hormone,’ Dr. Baulieu said. “Dr. Baulieu called the concept ‘contragestion’ because it counteracted the gestation process. More simply, he wrote, ‘RU-486’s action is like jamming a radio signal.’”

And that signal-jamming concoction doesn’t stop with the women exposed.

The FDA needs to engage to determine the dangers to men, women, and children who can be microdosed with an endocrine blocker, in part to address whether micro-dosing of Mifepristone, or any generic, may explain the rise of infertility and miscarriage rates in the United States. 

The Chemical Abortion Pill loving WHO notes that 1 in 6 people worldwide is impacted by infertility. 

At the end of 2024, The New York Times published this troubling headline: Does the United States Have an Infertility Crisis?, exploring historically low birthrates. Among the factors discuss was the difficulty of getting … and STAYING … pregnant. 

Progesterone’s importance to all humans, no matter their age, is well known. 

As Students for Life of America has reported:  Progesterone production plays a vital role in maintaining a healthy body, whether it be male, female, or preborn child, especially to enable the flourishing of fertility and the body’s reproductive system.

For men, progesterone is the life-source that creates testosterone, maintains cardiovascular health, balance estrogen, balance hormones/sex drive and cortisol (the stress hormone). As time goes on, progesterone holds the reigns of the andropause phase in men’s health and eases the decline of testosterone. Progesterone helps men “preserve their masculinity” by slowing down the rise of estrogen levels as men age and protects the brain through nerve function and receptors. Blocking the natural rhythm of progesterone, reportedly has harmful impacts on men such as: low libido, mood changes, weight gain, fatigue, muscle loss, and poor sleep.

Numerous studies reveal that progesterone-blocking EDCs negatively impact men, particularly affecting their fertility, sperm count, possibility of genital malformations, epigenetic changes, abnormal reproductive functions like decline in semen quality, reproductive health disorders, poor fertility, and reproductive disfunction.

For women, ingesting progesterone-blocking chemicals can affect fertility and open the pandora’s box of health issues. One study found that “Disruptions in female reproductive functions by endocrine disrupting chemicals may result in subfertility, infertility, improper hormone production, estrous and menstrual cycle abnormalities, anovulation, and early reproductive senescence.”

For pregnant women, the risks are much greater, exposing a developing human to progesterone-blocking EDC’s.

Studies reveal the following effects on pregnant women and their babies: DNA fragmentation, sperm DNA damage, impaired fetal androgen production/action, and lactation changes.

All over the country, progesterone-blocking chemicals can be in the one thing that humans need every day: water.

What we rely on for life should not be polluting our health, the environment and animals. Scientists with a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) “determined that endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) were present in wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent, water, and fish tissue in urban waterways in the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi River Regions (Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ohio) during 1999 through 2009.”

TO MAKE A COMMENT, ASKING THE EPA TO TRACK THE ACTIVE METABOLITES OF CHEMICAL ABORTION PILLS IN OUR WATER, CLICK HERE.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE NEED FOR A THOROUGH REVIEW HERE: Students for Life of America Calls on HHS & FDA to “Go Back to the Drawing Board” in their Review of Chemical Abortion Pills

READ: Students for Life Calls News that the EPA Looking into Testing for Abortion Water Pollution “a Win for Everyone who wants Crystal Clear Drinking Water”

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The Pro-Life Generation is an umbrella organization encompassing the most-cutting edge engagement opportunities for a Vote Pro-Life First Community. PLG includes Students for Life Action, a 501c4, along with its 501c3 sister organization, Students for Life of America. Together, these organizations make up America’s largest pro-life youth organization. The PLG manages a grassroots political and policy operation engaging Americans of all ages but with a special emphasis on the largest segment of voters — the youth vote. Headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA, PLG/SFLA/SFLAction serves more than 1,600 groups on middle school, high school, college, medical, and law school campuses in all 50 states. Our team has more conversations with this generation targeted by the abortion lobby than any other pro-life operation in the world. Each week, we reach more than 10 million accounts across social media platforms and average 6 million video views. The organization’s CEO, Kristan Hawkins, hosts a bi-weekly, informative podcast, The Kristan Hawkins Show. In addition to SFLA/SFLAction, PLG leads multiple initiatives to lead and serve the future of the pro-life movement, including the Campaign for Abortion Free Cities, Standing With You, and the Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement.