Texas GOP Introduces Bill to Test Waste Water For Abortion Pill Byproducts

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The bill also requires testing water for the pregnancy hormone

Troy Matthews
Apr 16, 2025

In one of the most bizarre moves from any Republican state government yet, Texas GOP have introduced a bill that would require water utilities to test waste water for chemical byproducts in urine related to the use of the abortion pill and birth control. SB 1976 would gather data on abortion pill and birth control urinary metabolites in water by area, but the bill also, strangely, requires testing for pregnanediol, the hormone that appears in urine when a person is pregnant.

Why is the Texas GOP trying to require water testing for pregnancy and abortion pill usage in municipalities? They say it is for environmental protection. Anti-choice extremists have long argued, without scientific evidence, that chemicals in the abortion pill mifepristone are harmful to water. However; Republicans, and especially Texas Republicans, are not known for their tough stances on protecting the environment.

It is also serves to back the talking point that abortion pills need to be banned because they are dangerous to women, which the medical community roundly rejects. This same disinformation campaign led to Louisiana classifying abortion pills as dangerous addictive substances, like Xanax and Ambien, which led to requirements that they be locked away in hospitals out of reach, when they are commonly used to treat dangerous miscarriages. No, people don't get addicted to abortion pills.

"This is a growing concern around the country, and it’s not a left or right issue—it’s a health issue," said State Senator Bryan Hughes, the author of the bill. The bill also calls for testing for estrone and testosterone; spikes of which could be used to determine if people are utilizing gender affirming care in an area.

https://meidasnews.com/news/texas-gop-introduces-bill-to-test-waste-water-for-abortion-pill-byproducts

Save your pee and take it to a sane state for disposal.

[ck4829]

1. "Hey we found all these heavy metals, what about them?" "Dude, shut up."

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4. The real purpose of science is to track women and trans people.

[Norbert]

2. I wish that I lived closer to Texas

I would get a hold of these abortion pills and crush one and throw it in the toilet every time I peed.

[Irish_Dem]

7. I'd love to see the look on their faces when they come to arrest you Norbert.

[Aristus]

3. And then what?

Do these rootin'-tootin', six-gun shootin' Texas drugstore cowboys think it will be possible to trace the waste water back to a particular house? Is there any talk about what any of this would cost? Or is this more shitty, unnecessary Republican political dinner theater?

Thank God Texas doesn't have any real actual problems to solve. The legislature might be asked to actually do something substantive.

[jmowreader]

15. I think it's more psychological than anything

Fear is a powerful weapon, and if they spread the rumor that they can track down the house in which abortion pills were taken and throw the person who took them in jail for murder, many people will decide having the baby is easier.

[stillcool]

5. too bad they couldn't put some of

the money used on their experiments on health care or education. But then, why would they, when this crap must be so much fun.

[RoeVWade]

6. GOP must have consumed paint chips as children. (Lead lowered IQ)

nt*

[Ping Tung]

8. Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell.

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love. -

Butch Hancock

[Irish_Dem]

9. They would love to make women take mandatory pregnancy tests.

China did this during their one child policy.
And also friends, family, co-workers ratted out pregnant women.
To get better jobs, apartments, etc.

[Crunchy Frog]

10. Or just dump jugs of it in your local park.

We are talking about Texas after all.

[Zackzzzz]

12. My thought, backyard with puppy

[odins folly]

11. I think the main problem with todays republicans

And not just in Texas, is that after regan began the dumbing down of America, and we had the "audacity" to elect a person of color to the presidency, the right wing went out and found the most imbecilic mouth breathers to represent them because those mouth breathers yelled and screamed the loudest. They elected people who claimed they would enter the halls of government for the sole purpose of shutting it down.
What logic is that?
And now we have these fucksticks devising more and more idiotic ways to try and eradicate anything they deam a threat to their toxic masculinity....

Assholes....

[Rebl2]

13. This is

completely nuts! Since when do they care about environmental hazards 🙄

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14. They don't.

They care about controlling women's bodies.