The anti-abortion group Students for Life of America says the country’s waterways and drinking water are contaminated with “abortion water.”

“People need to understand that they are likely drinking other people’s abortions,” Student for Life’s head of policy, Kristi Hamrick, told Politico.

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The group is making the claim in an appeal to the Trump administration’s EPA to get mifepristone — a drug used in more than two-thirds of all abortions — added to a list of drinking water contaminants tracked by public utilities.

The pitch is part of an effort to align the anti-abortion group with Robert F. Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again initiative. The anti-science HHS secretary could be receptive to their message.

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Betsy Southerland, a former career scientist in EPA’s Office of Water in the first Trump administration, called the idea of adding mifepristone to the EPA’s list “outrageous”.

“We have such a huge queue of emerging contaminants that we know are toxic, and we know are in our drinking water and in our fisheries,” she said. “You would be replacing a known toxic chemical for a hypothetical one.”

Though trace amounts of mifepristone may remain in fetal tissue that’s flushed down the toilet, experts say it’s unlikely to make it into American waterways, let alone drinking water.

Students for Life says it has conducted its own water testing, with plans to publish the findings in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. It has yet to do so.

Hamrick, the policy director, called the danger of mifepristone self-evident.

“Do you really need a test to determine that it’s a bad idea to flush placenta, tissue, blood and human remains into our waterways?” she asked.  

Hamrick said EPA staff seemed receptive to the message and suggested using the upcoming public comment period for a five-year update on the EPA’s list of water contaminants to get their message out.

She said Students for Life hopes to meet soon with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, and ultimately, Secretary Kennedy.

“All I want for Christmas,” said the group’s president, Kristan Hawkins, “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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