Three years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a historic ruling that significantly impacted abortion accessibility across the nation. Despite the implementation of numerous abortion restrictions and bans in various states, statistics indicate a rise in abortion rates in the United States during this period.
An important response to this challenge has been the use of abortion pills. The new series, The Network, produced by Futuro Media in collaboration with NPR’s Embedded team, delves into the unexpected journey of how abortion pills originated in Latin America and eventually made their way to the U.S. and other parts of the world.
This episode of The Sunday Story is the work of Andrew Mambo and Ariana Gharib Lee, while Liana Simstrom and Rhaina Cohen handled the editing. The engineering was overseen by Maggie Luthar.
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