HEY DEMS: If Science Pits Abortion Access Against The Environment… Which Will You Choose?

For decades now, there was a trump card activists could play to shut down almost every debate on almost any human activity: ‘it’s bad for the environment’. But will they still play that card in this situation?

We’ve often reminded our readers of the time that even AOC’s Chief of Staff has admitted something the right has long claimed about the climate agenda: the real objective was capturing the economy to serve a more socialist model, [as explained in the latter half of the linked article] NOT in achieving environmental goals.

If we are to take that at their word, the Dems have already shown that socialism is a greater priority than the environmentalism they like to use as a club.

Will the environment take second place to their abortion priorities, as well?

Becuase their precious abortion pill is about to be scrutinized for its impact on the environment.

Years ago, we had a study showing that the ordinary birth control pill adds hormones to the water that can disrupt aquatic ecosystems downstream. Other evidence pointed to elevated levels of pharmaceuticals — including estrogen — in tapwater as a result.

More than a decade ago questions were already arising about the ecological impact of meds designed to simply block a pregnancy before it occurs.

What do you expect will happen when you introduce widespread use of a more potent drug whose role is to end a pregnancy — especially when one of the ecological complaints centers around our inability to fully remove these disruptive hormones from waste water after we have treated it?

Republican lawmakers have asked Lee Zeldin’s EPA to look into whether hormone disruptors potent enough to end a pregnancy are finding their way into the water supply, and if so, whether their presence exceeds safe levels.

A group of Republican lawmakers asked EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday to look at the dangers of flushing the abortion pill into America’s drinking water, according to a letter first shared with The Daily Wire.

Led by Rep. Josh Brecheen and Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, the lawmakers urged Zeldin to take steps to probe whether the byproducts of mifepristone were ending up in drinking water and negatively impacting fertility. They argued that the deadly pills were not only ending the lives of unborn children, but also contaminating drinking water, making it unsafe for all Americans.

“We recognize that the greatest tragedy of every abortion is the murder of the innocent. But we are also concerned that activist bureaucrats overlooked real public health risks posed by mifepristone in their crusade to expand abortion access,” Brecheen told The Daily Wire. “With chemical abortion now the most common abortion method in America, the public deserves answers about how these potent hormone disruptors affect our water supply and contribute to our nation’s rising infertility rates.” —DailyWire

So long as the question concerns telling an ordinary American what kind of a lawn mower, air conditioning, stove, or car they can own, they don’t hesitate to impose their will on the lives of others. But when ecological concerns start stepping on the toes of their political agenda, they suddenly forget all about their buddies in the Sierra Club —  many of whom might be just as fickle as they are. Just ask anyone who tries to raise concerns about what wind turbines are doing to birds and whales.

When ecology is a convenient cudgel they can use to threaten others, they’re ‘all in’.

But they sure are quick to drop it as soon as it becomes inconvenient.

Watch them do the same again, now that it threatens their precious abortion pill. In fact, the activist journos at Politico were already prepping the information battle-space against this argument back in 2022.

Abortion opponents and their allies in elected office are seizing on an unusual strategy after suffering a wave of election defeats — using environmental laws to try to block the distribution of abortion pills.

The new approach comes as the pills mifepristone and misoprostol, which people can take at home during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, have become the most common method of abortion in the U.S. and virtually the only option for millions of people in states with laws that have forced clinics to close since the fall of Roe v. Wade. — Politico

Isn’t it funny how when WE start asking questions about environmental impact, they are dismissed as cynical political ploys or talking points. But when they do it, they speak as though with the voice of a moral paragon.