June 5, 2025
By Marta Martínez, Victoria Estrada
Podcast: 41-Minute Listen
In the mid-1980s, an OBGYN in Brazil noticed that far fewer pregnant women at his hospital were dying from abortion complications.
It wasn't a coincidence.
Brazilian women had made a discovery that allowed them to safely have abortions at home, despite the country's abortion restrictions. That discovery eventually spread across the globe.
Continued: https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1263508251/the-network-saintotec