💬 Opinion Aug 12, 2026 · Colleen Scerpella

Right-Wing Activists Co-opt Environmental Laws to Fight ‘Abortion Pollution’

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Right-Wing Activists Co-opt Environmental Laws to Fight ‘Abortion Pollution’
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In the escalating war on women and their right to bodily autonomy, some right-wing groups are pushing a peculiar claim about abortion-inducing drugs—namely, that the most commonly used synthetic steroid, mifepristone, is contaminating the country’s water supply.



Yet reproductive rights groups, environmentalists, and scientists are quick to point out that claims of concern over “water purity” and “ecological degradation” a

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