Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to impose stricter controls on the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone due to the potential health risks for women who may inadvertently ingest it from public waterways.

Local Concerns

Rokita argues that mifepristone can harm unborn children by blocking progesterone and affecting reproductive organ development. There’s a growing threat that chemically tainted medical waste is being flushed into American waterways.

“Drug-induced abortions occurring outside of the legal, direct and personal care of a properly licensed physician are causing pain and suffering to women,” AG Rokita said. “Obviously, this starts with the individuals persuaded by Planned Parenthood and Big Pharma to use mifepristone to abort their pregnancies, but increasingly it extends to other women who might ingest the drug from their local water supplies.”

Coalition Efforts

Indiana is part of a coalition of 14 states requesting the EPA regulate mifepristone under the Safe Drinking Water Act in order to prevent contamination. The coalition also argues that looser FDA regulations have increased chemical abortions, posing risks to pregnant women and the environment.

Indiana Right to Life President Mike Fichter issued a statement on Wednesday following Rokita’s actions, saying that regardless of where someone stands on abortion issues, water contamination affects everyone.

“This is a question the EPA needs to address and we simply can’t let the politics of abortion get in the way,” Fichter said. “We particularly need to know the impact this is having on women and unborn children.”

Original reporting: 93.1 WIBC (Indianapolis) — read the source article.