"lay the groundwork to ban [the medication] nationwide."
"the American people deserve to know what contaminants might be present in their drinking water and their potential impacts on public health."
"Are there existing EPA-approved methods for detecting mifepristone and its active metabolites in water supplies?"
"This is about politicized government surveillance, not science," Liz Wagner, a senior federal policy counsel at CFRR told Jezebel in a statement. "Using environmental monitoring as a cover to police abortion access would be the height of hypocri"
Texas legislators proposed requiring wastewater plants to test for traces of abortion medication, and one bill did not become law. EPA scientists told the Trump administration that methods to detect mifepristone in wastewater do not currently exist but could potentially be developed. GOP lawmakers formally asked the EPA whether EPA-approved detection methods for mifepristone and its metabolites exist. Wastewater surveillance has previously tracked pathogens and covid through national monitoring systems. Without clear regulation, wastewater-based epidemiology could pose privacy and legal risks, including potential misuse by anti-abortion officials to surveil or target abortion seekers.
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