Getting Abortion Pills Into Women's Hands
from Up First from NPR
by NPR
Published: Sun Jun 22 2025
Show Notes
This week marks three years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, in an historic ruling that changed the landscape of abortion access. Since that decision came down, abortion rates across the country have actually increased, despite many states enacting abortion bans or severely restricting abortion access.
One way many women are still accessing abortion is through abortion pills. The Network is a new series by Futuro Media and our colleagues at NPR's Embeddedthat looks at the surprising history of how the use of abortion pills began in Latin America and eventually spread around the world, including to the U.S.
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One way many women are still accessing abortion is through abortion pills. The Network is a new series by Futuro Media and our colleagues at NPR's Embeddedthat looks at the surprising history of how the use of abortion pills began in Latin America and eventually spread around the world, including to the U.S.
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