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  "id": 7749112,
  "title": "21 million women live in U.S. counties with limited birth control access",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/21-million-women-live-in-u-s-counties-with-limited-birth-control",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-16T08:43:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NPR Health",
    "slug": "npr-health",
    "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/09/16/nx-s1-5956869/21-million-women-live-in-u-s-counties-with-limited-birth-control-access"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "EXCLUSIVE EMBARGOED 9/16 Data shared exclusively with NPR shows more than 21 million women in the U.S. need birth control that they can't access. Two reproductive research organizations, Guttmacher and Power to Decide, have created an interactive map that shows county-by-county the availability and the need for low or no-cost contraception.",
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        "title": "21 million women live in U.S. counties with limited birth control access",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/21-million-women-live-in-u-s-counties-with-limited-birth-control-7753161",
        "published": "2026-09-16T09:00:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}