[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1389 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1389

     Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the 
 monitoring and regulation of water systems not be weaponized for the 
 purposes of surveilling, tracking, or detecting use of, stigmatizing, 
      and further restricting access to medication abortion care.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 24, 2026

Ms. Pettersen submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                               RESOLUTION


 
     Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the 
 monitoring and regulation of water systems not be weaponized for the 
 purposes of surveilling, tracking, or detecting use of, stigmatizing, 
      and further restricting access to medication abortion care.

Whereas State and Federal antiabortion lawmakers continue to wage attacks to 
        obstruct access to essential reproductive and time-sensitive health 
        care;
Whereas in the years since the United States Supreme Court's ruling to overturn 
        Roe v. Wade (410 U.S. 113 (1973)) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (505 
        U.S. 833 (1992)) in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization 
        (597 U.S. 215) decision on June 24, 2022, antiabortion advocates and 
        lawmakers have tried to use baseless environmental claims and 
        misinformation about mifepristone to justify restricting access to this 
        essential medication nationwide, despite its longstanding safety record;
Whereas decades of science and overwhelming evidence show that mifepristone is 
        safe and effective for virtually everyone who wants to end an early 
        pregnancy;
Whereas attempts to restrict mifepristone lack an evidence-based consensus and 
        are politically motivated by antiabortion lawmakers, judges, and groups;
Whereas Federal lawmakers seeking to restrict reproductive health care have 
        pursued efforts to instruct the Environmental Protection Agency to 
        develop methods to detect medication abortion, including mifepristone, 
        in water systems, further politicizing essential reproductive health 
        care;
Whereas over 60 bills have been introduced in 22 States to restrict access to 
        medication abortion, including mifepristone, in 2026;
Whereas State lawmakers seeking to restrict access to medication abortion care 
        have introduced legislation that, under the guise of protecting the 
        environment, targets medication abortion directly, by imposing 
        restrictions on its use, or indirectly, by requiring surveillance and 
        testing for its presence in water systems based on misinformation;
Whereas safe, affordable, clean water is essential to environmental and 
        reproductive justice;
Whereas most of the pollution in water systems in the United States 
        (groundwater, surface water, wastewater, or drinking water) comes from 
        poorly or untreated industrial agricultural products like pesticides, 
        fertilizers, and animal waste runoff, or industry waste from mining, 
        manufacturing, or energy production;
Whereas the proposed State legislation lacks any evidence and further mandates 
        the diversion of essential environmental budgetary resources toward 
        medication abortion water system testing and surveillance, despite the 
        lack of scientific justification for such testing and, in some cases, 
        the reported absence of the requisite State resources and the 
        operational capacity required for the implementation;
Whereas the Food and Drug Administration has conducted scientific analyses and 
        repeatedly found that mifepristone and its metabolites do not present 
        any environmental concern or harm, including as recently as 2025;
Whereas there remains no scientific evidence demonstrating medication abortion, 
        including mifepristone and its metabolites, presents any harm to the 
        environment, wildlife, or water systems in the United States; and
Whereas Federal and State efforts to monitor water systems for mifepristone lack 
        any scientific justification and highlights a harmful and underlying 
        agenda unrelated to environmental protection or protection of public 
        health: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that--
            (1) medications used in abortion care, including 
        mifepristone, are safe and effective, approved by the Food and 
        Drug Administration for over 25 years with decades of peer-
        reviewed science and evidence demonstrating its safety and 
        efficacy;
            (2) medications used in abortion care, including 
        mifepristone, should not be subject to political interference;
            (3) safeguarding water systems in the United States should 
        rely on scientifically-based environmental strategies rather 
        than the politicization of essential medications used in 
        reproductive health care, including abortion; and
            (4) efforts to surveil the use of medications commonly used 
        in abortion care under the false banner of environmental or 
        public health protection represents a blatant weaponization of 
        environmental laws and a direct attack on access to medication 
        abortion.
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