Fourteen Republican-led states are demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency increase scrutiny of at-home abortion drugs for wastewater contamination from at-home abortions.
The request, laid out in a letter sent Tuesday from 14 attorneys general, marks the most significant effort in advancing the theory posed by hard-line anti-abortion advocates that self-managed abortions using the abortion pill mifepristone could be contaminating drinking water and in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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