The Clean Water for All Life Act is from Rep. Mary Miller (R-Illinois).
As AFN reported previously, it would amend Title 18 of the U.S. Code to prohibit chemical abortions conducted without the physical presence of a healthcare provider and establishes safeguards to ensure proper medical oversight and responsible disposal of abortion-related medical waste.
Supporting organizations include National Pro-Life Alliance, American Principles Project, Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, Family Policy Alliance, and Students for Life Action.
The bill comes at a time when pro-lifers are getting more frustrated at the Trump administration's inaction against loose abortion pill regulations.
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, told AFN that this is the most innovative attack on abortion that the pro-life movement has engineered since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
"And I don't say that lightly," Hawkins says. "This is critical because we've been talking with legislators, with administration officials."
Hawkins said that "everyone agrees that we have to do something about chemical abortion pills," which are the leading cause of infant death in the U.S.
"But then the excuses start," Hawkins states. "(Lawmakers say) 'Well, we can't do this because we won't get the majority of Americans to support it, or this is very hard, you know, this is bureaucracy’."
Pointing to Miller's bill, Hawkins said that the measure is easy and it does not matter if you're pro-life or pro-choice.
“Every American cares about what's in our water, every American wants their family to be drinking crystal clear drinking water, as President Trump calls it, that doesn't harm us," Hawkins says.
She notes the unfettered access to abortion and how the industry operates like the wild, wild west.
“What we know from chemical abortion pills, we know definitively through our own research at Students for Life that antiprogesterone metabolites, something that women and both men need, are in our tap water because these chemical abortions are happening every single day, over a thousand of them, and putting more than 50 tons of chemically tainted remains in our wastewater," Hawkins states.
Cosponsors of the legislation include Republican Representatives Michael Cloud (TX-27), Pat Harrigan (NC-10), Sheri Biggs (SC-03), Paul Gosar (AZ-09), Diana Harshbarger (TN-01), John McGuire (VA-05), Greg Steube (FL-17), Lauren Boebert (CO-04), Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03), Kat Cammack (FL-03), Andy Ogles (TN-05), John Rose (TN-06) and Ralph Norman (SC-05), and Tim Burchett (TN-02).
"The murder-for-profit abortion industry has completely ignored the dangerous and unethical disposal of pre-born baby remains and toxic chemical waste produced by abortion pills," said Congresswoman Mary Miller in a press release. "I introduced the Clean Water for All Life Act to put an end to their reckless and inhumane practices."
