Anti-abortion advocates, including Republican lawmakers and state officials, want the EPA to review mifepristone as a water contaminant. Scientists say there’s no evidence it harms the environment or people.
While there is no scientific evidence that abortion medication is contaminating Americans’ water supply, it has nonetheless become a central claim by the anti-abortion movement. Activists, Instagram influencers and Republican Party officials — including state and federal lawmakers — are doubling down on what experts describe as a disinformation campaign that mixes environmental policy and reproductive rights, and risks exploiting legitimate concerns about clean water.
But it probably is contaminated by the forever chemicals created by DuPont and 3M.
I dont see the problem. If we are so sure its not in the drinking water than we should run the tests.
Because:
Donley added that focusing on mifepristone distracts from well-documented water quality threats, including PFAS — known as forever chemicals — pesticides, lead and nitrate contamination.
“There are legitimate water quality threats that we need to attack and rectify in a regulatory manner. And then there are things that are out in the left field that just distract people."
If we’re testing for abortion pills, why not viagra, too?
I agree with the other commenter - we should test for all these things.
Scientists say there’s no evidence it harms the environment or people.
I hate this statement, since it fails to specify if science has tested for harm at all. It isnt that hard to say “after decades of experimentation and analysis, we have found no evidence of harm.” But instead they leave it ambiguous, and use a statement that could equally mean “we have done literally no investigation into this”
People really ought to read the damn article. It has been tested.
We should be. None of these tests are mutually exclusive. They are just trying to weaponize the gendered nature of this discussion to try and avoid doing anything about it.
No, it’s a response to weaponizing health care.
Environmental health experts have consistently said there is no scientific evidence that abortion medication causes harm to the environment — or to humans. Both reproductive rights advocates and environmental scientists have said that the argument co-opts environmental policy as a pathway to weaponize and stigmatize health care.
What is a response exactly? Calls to do nothing?
You’re attempted gotcha retort of “should we test for viagra too” is a perfect example of exactly what they are trying to accomplish here.
Contaminated drinking water has been a major issue in the US for decades and by shifting the conversation to testing for abortion pills or testing for viagra they turn the conversation into a gender war and get to avoid addressing the actual issue.
None of these tests are mutually exclusive and they should all be being done to avoid the entire country becoming Flint Michigan.
There isn’t enough time, money or resources to test for absolutely everything. Non-scientists weaponizing women’s healthcare started the gender conflict, the article is a response to it. You could try reading it before commenting on it.
No one is arguing we should test for absolutely everything but that was a nice strawman argument. Following it with an appeal to authority and assumption about what i have or havnt done is a nice touch too.
They are “weaponizing women’s Healthcare” specifically to get this kind of response from people like you and you’ve fell for it hook line and sinker.
So you didn’t read the article?
You should probably look up the definitions of those fallacies as well. An appeal to authority isn’t a fallacy when you quote the relevent authority on a topic, and it’s not a strawman to use the same argument as the article we’re discussing.
You are under the impression that the right is sincere in this concern troll and would shut up about it if it were proven false. Nothing could be further from the truth. Entertaining this will only prove that they can bully you into anything by making up some nonsense and pretending to believe it. Even results that agree with you will embolden them because they got you to participate in their time wasting charade.
Im in no way under the impression that either side is sincere. Infact my argument is the exact opposite. My argument is that this is a deliberately designed dance between the so called “left” and “right” designed by the people who lobby both sides as a means of taking one topic and making it about another topic that benefits them.
As long as people are stuck arguing about which drugs we should be testing the water for an why then they can continue to ignore the actual problem: there are multiple substances in water supplies across the US that shouldnt be there.
