Posted on Jun 7, 2023
A pro-choice organization has the internet cracking up over an anti-choice group’s false and bizarre claim that America’s drinking water is contaminated with abortion pills.
The anti-choice Students for Life of America is on a mission to end reproductive freedom. The group has recently taken its battle to an unprecedented front: tap water.
In a TikTok posted last month, Student for Life claimed that the abortion pill is “poisoning America’s water.” It complained that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hasn’t done a water study to see if the ingredients in abortion pills are contaminating the water supply.
“If you care about the environment, like at all, it’s time to tell the FDA, do the study and remove these drugs from the market,” Students for Life asserted in the TikTok.
PolitiFact reports that there is no evidence that abortion pills are getting into the water supply. It’s also noteworthy that the Environmental Protection Agency and local water utilities test the nation’s drinking water, not the FDA.
When it posted the TikTok, Students for Life got a little bit of blowback from people who called it a “stretch” and accused the group of fear-mongering. But engagement was relatively low until Abortion Access Front got a hold of the video.
Over the weekend, the pro-choice group posted a TikTok featuring a montage of people satirizing the claim about abortion pills in the water.
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