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Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.715K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0

This message comes from the podcast, Bad Rap, The Case Against Diddy.

0:04.4

ABC News, legal contributor Brian Buckmeyer covers the rise and fall of Diddy, the allegations,

0:10.3

and his defense, with real-time updates straight from the courtroom.

0:14.1

Find Bad Rap, wherever you get podcasts.

0:18.0

I'm Randab al-Fat-Igh.

0:19.6

And I'm Ramtin Arablui.

0:21.6

Three years ago, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion opponents celebrated.

0:28.3

But many abortion rights supporters feared that American women were now in danger.

0:33.4

They thought, without access to legal abortions, women would resort to unsafe methods.

0:39.6

Yet, a sprawling set of people have been expanding abortion access in unconventional ways since the 1980s.

0:47.0

They'd been prepared for this moment, a network of activists and midwives, grandmothers, and friends.

0:53.6

Today on the show, we bring you episode one of the network, a three-part series from NPR's

0:59.4

Embedded podcast and Futuro Media.

1:02.6

Hosts Victoria Estrada and Marta Martinez go inside the global movement that's helped

1:08.0

millions of women have abortions at home.

1:11.6

The story begins decades ago, when Brazilian women found a way to have safe abortions

1:16.8

without a doctor and how their method is shaping the future of abortion in the U.S. today.

1:24.1

Here's Marta.

1:29.7

The day after the fall of row, 13 states immediately banned or severely limited abortion.

1:36.3

Eventually, nearly half of all states did.

1:39.0

And within a month of the ruling, dozens of clinics stopped performing abortions,

1:45.8

forcing many Americans to travel hundreds of miles to get one. Other laws targeted abortion providers. Are you scared? I am scared,

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