{
  "id": 8907618,
  "title": "EPA launches drinking water study looking for traces of abortion pills",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/epa-launches-drinking-water-study-looking-for-traces-of-abortion-pills",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-21T10:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hill",
    "slug": "the-hill",
    "url": "https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/6099145-epa-testing-mifepristone-misoprostol/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a drinking water quality study that will for the first time look for traces of abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol — something anti-abortion activists, attorneys general and lawmakers have been lobbying the agency to do for years. The agency stopped short of making mifepristone an official water contaminant...",
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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."
}