If you live in a blue state -- and especially in a blue city -- it's easy to forget that a part of the MAGA authoritarian project is to rob women of our bodily autonomy.
If you live somewhere where the Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs decision empowered state governments to outlaw abortion and the people have not been able to stop anti-abortion pols from implementing the ban, this will probably not surprise you.
... After years of anti-abortion pressure, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recommended that states test their drinking water for abortion medication and birth control, putting the drugs on a federal list of potential “contaminants.”
The move clears the way for Republicans to restrict abortion and contraception under the guise of protecting the environment—including humiliating regulations that could force women to bag up their pregnancy tissue as medical waste. And at a moment when pregnancy-related arrests are rising and states are moving to punish abortion patients, it marks a dangerous acceleration toward a full-blown reproductive surveillance state.
... Anti-abortion activists claim that when women use medication to end their pregnancies, remnants of the drug poison the environment and water supply. They also say that pregnancy tissue is getting into the drinking water, and that Americans are all “drinking abortions.”
As you can probably guess, there is no truth to any of this. ...
She explains that, yes, the scientific studies have been done.
We metabolize abortion and birth control pills like any other medication, and only trace amounts leave our bodies at all. Using anti-abortion logic, every single drug people take—from antidepressants to Viagra—would be a “pollutant.”
This, like all the right's anti-abortion and anti-contraception hysteria, is about controlling women. We've had enough of this BS!
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