Getting Abortion Pills Into Women's Hands

About this episode

This week marks three years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned <em>Roe v. Wade</em>, 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. <br/><br/>One way many women are still accessing abortion is through abortion pills. <a href="https://www.npr.org/series/1269399819/nprs-embedded-the-network-with-futuro-media"target="_blank" ><em>The Network</em></a> is a new series by <em> </em>Futuro Media and our colleagues at NPR's <a href="https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510311/embedded"target="_blank" ><em>Embedded</em></a> that 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. <br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>