I'm Aisha Roscoe, and this is a Sunday story where we go beyond the news to bring you one big story.

Three years ago this week, the Supreme Court issued a historic ruling overturning Roe v. Wade,

the case that gave women a constitutional right to abortion.

The biggest change to abortion rights in the United States in nearly half a century is here.

The Supreme Court upended nearly a half century of legal precedent.

Since that decision, nearly 40% of states have passed laws either banning or further restricting abortion.

But even with these new restrictions, abortion rates across the country have actually been rising.

Women are still finding ways to have abortions, and one of the main ways is taking abortion pills.

In fact, pills account for about two-thirds of abortions in the U.S. healthcare system.

There's a surprising history to one of those

abortion pills, and that's the focus of a three-part series, The Network, produced by Futuro

media and our colleagues over at Embedded. The network traces how for decades, a loosely connected

network of women across the Americas have helped people access

abortions despite restrictions and bans. They've done this by providing each other with

pills and support outside the formal health care system. The series also explores the pushback

that these women have faced from abortion opponents.

When we come back, I sit down with the host of the series, Marta Martinez and Victoria Estrada.

They traveled to Brazil, Argentina, and eventually to the U.S.

to tell this story of abortion access, regardless of legal restrictions.

The House of Representatives has approved a White House request to claw back two years of previously approved funding for public media.

The recisions package now moves on to the Senate.

This move poses a serious threat to local stations and public media as we know it.

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