this is just fucking vile.
that'd be like using the surveillance state to screen for immigrants instead of pedophiles. oh wait a hot second...
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It kinda sucks that something like this is being done for an anti-abortion agenda rather than interest in keeping our water clean and safe to drink.
This place fucking sucks. I sick of it. Mentally and physically.
No amount of hate is too much to hold against these people.
What about all the forever chemicals of.... (Insert numerous chemicals that when you can measure it it's already 1000x the amount it should be)?
The DOW Chemical company already donated $50k to Trump to get EPA off their pfas contaminations of the environment.
Pennies.
people refuse to accept that the epstein class exists despite their priorities written into law like this.
Did you not make it to the third paragraph?
test them for thousands of drugs, pesticides and synthetic chemicals, including mifepristone, misoprostol, and multiple types of "forever chemicals," according to a description of the study.
Totalitarianism eventually falls because they waste so much time micromanaging. But before it does fall, a lot will get hurt in the process.
LOL.. but not bacteria and viruses.
I want that dysentery! Put it all in my mouth!
Meanwhile my drinking water is tasting moldy for a week and the city doesn't really know why or when it will end. It's great
Must be the abortion pills.
Just complain about abortion pills on your water!
Time to fix up that ol' outhouse out back. Yep.
Drinking water? You mean waste water?
Edit: nope, they're testing drinking water. Well, that's good I guess. I don't know how the hell abortion drugs would get into drinking water, but it would be very bad if we found it there.
yeah , what? So their concern is that drinking water is being 'contaminated' by a number of drugs including abortion drugs. I am not sure how that would be happening but yeah better than trying to track people down via waste water. Strange.
“I think what’s concerning here is that there’s already a culture of criminalization around abortion, especially since Dobbs [v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization], and the potential to use this as justification for further surveillance could create more fear for abortion seekers, for providers at a time when folks are already being criminalized and for their pregnancy outcomes, including abortion,” Anna Bernstein, principal federal policy adviser for the Guttmacher Institute, told The Hill.
Nathan Donley, the environmental health science director at the Center for Biological Diversity, told the outlet mifepristone is not one of the known contaminants on the EPA's list to regulate.
It has alleged that as women increasingly use the abortion pills at home to terminate pregnancies, flushing the expelled tissue, traces of the pill make their way to water supply, contaminating it.
That's fucked, if true.
One, don't flush any drugs. Take it to a pharmacy and ask them to dispose of it properly.
Two, anything flushed should end up in a wastewater treatment facility. If the waste water is somehow contaminating your drinking water, that sounds like a clean water act violation, and the government should be investigated and fined repeatedly until this is fixed.
Take it to a pharmacy and ask them to dispose of it properly.
Many people are (rightly) scared of doing this. It's more discreet to flush than it is to get rid of it in a public place.
- A waste water treatment facility has extreme limitations on what it can clean, and literally just gets it to the won't-kill-the-environment level. Hormones, viruses, etc are too small to effectively process on a massive scale. New York for example, still sometimes releases raw sewage because they can't keep up.
- Trump and the Supreme Court have basically gutted the clean water act. If it's not navigable, the law doesn't apply to it.
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