NEWS
In the Water
With the abortion pill now accounting for two-thirds of all abortions, and Planned Parenthood officially telling women to “sit on the toilet” after taking it, questions are being raised about contamination of the water supply. “The EPA admitted last September that up to 10% of contaminants may survive two stages of wastewater treatment,” reported The Washington Stand in June 2025. “What happens when it gets recycled back into our drinking water? Does that affect future fertility? Can that cause miscarriages?” These are good questions. An inquiring mind might also ask, “Where are the keepers of the Clean Water Act?” Wastewater treatment facilities have become “de facto medical waste facilities,” comments John Stemberger, president of Liberty Counsel Action.
Indeed. The Washington Stand also reports that “sanitation official have found fully formed fetuses inside wastewater facilities in South Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.”
Published in SALVO magazine, Issue 74
Safe & Effective?
Danco Laboratories markets mifepristone (brand name Mifeprex) as a “safe and effective option for ending early pregnancy [that] has been used by more than 5 million patients in the U.S.” The drug gained FDA approval in 2000, and the current label identifies its rate of adverse reactions as “less than 0.5 percent.” Last April, the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) published the results of a massive study which, in the words of EPPC president Ryan T. Anderson, “is the statistical equivalent of a category 5 hurricane hitting the prevailing narrative.” EPPC analysts examined six years of insurance claims data from an all-payer insurance claims database. The claims represented 865,727 mifepristone prescriptions dispensed to 692,873 women from 2017–2023. According to insurance data, “10.93 percent of women experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious or life-threatening adverse event” following a mifepristone abortion. Worse, the authors note that since 2000, the FDA has twice—under Presidents Obama and Biden—lifted safeguards surrounding its use to the extent that all six safety regulations instituted in 2000 are no longer in effect. Worse still, since the Obama administration lifted the requirement that adverse events be report-ed, we can be fairly well sure the true rate is even higher.
Is mifepristone effective? Yes. Safe? Not on your life—or not
on hers. This is a damning indictment on at least one (and probably more) of our healthcare regulatory agencies.
Published in SALVO magazine, Issue 74
Sources: https://www.earlyoptionpill.com/; https://eppc.org/news/largest-ever-study-of-abortion-pill-reveals-shocking-num-ber-of-adverse-events/