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Hello from a burning planet!

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Repro Nation Monthly | July 2026
Abortion cannot be stopped
Hello from a burning planet!

 

It seems like no matter where you turn—and for some this is quite literal—there are wildfires everywhere. And yet the anti-abortion movement has chosen to focus its environmental concerns this summer on… you guessed it: mifepristone. Activists are once again trying to convince the public that the abortion pill is contaminating our water systems, this time with a new “study” claiming that its alleged presence in “environmental water… could affect the physiology of aquatic animals; and human health, including fertility, pregnancy and fetal development.” It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.

 

The devastation of climate change is real and should be the focus of research studies and community activism and congressional committees—not baseless papers that suggest medication abortion in water systems causes autism and infertility. Yet anti-abortion activists are flooding the zone with their junk science because they will do anything and say anything to get medication abortion out of people’s hands. It won’t work, but we have to keep swatting away these lies and anti-abortion stigma to ensure they don’t turn into policies that criminalize those who are already over-policed. It’s draining work, but it’s the work. So, let’s say it one more time with feeling: “No, abortion pills are NOT in our drinking water.”

 

In Solidarity,

 

Regina Mahone

Deputy Editor, Print, The Nation

Co-author, Liberating Abortion
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Repro Nation’s Book of the Month
This month’s book suggestion is for anyone who is feeling uneasy after Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing, during which the acting attorney general suggested he was open to enforcing the 1873 Comstock Act to block the shipment of medication abortion pills. The mailing of abortion pills in the United States allows people in every state, no matter their state’s law, to access an abortion, though not without varying degrees of risk, surveillance, and criminalization. While we wait with baited breath for the outcome of that hearing, might I suggest giving Abortion Beyond the Law: Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-Managed Abortion your close attention?

 

In her 2023 book, Brooklyn College sociology professor Naomi Braine examines the global utilization of medication abortion as a form of harm reduction and civil disobedience, and issues this important reminder: “The movement [for self-managed abortion, or DIY medication abortion] demonstrates, on a daily basis, the impossibility of banning abortion and affirms the fundamental human right to bodily self-determination as well as the full humanity of persons facing marginalization and criminalization for exercising their right to self-determination.” Braine shows that while we can look to history for affirmation of a long history of community-based abortion access, the movement exists on every continent and is very much alive and rooted in care and solidarity—and will continue, no matter how hard the anti-abortion movement fights to end it.
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