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Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Luce and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.

For those who've been keeping up with our Your Body Who's Choice series,

we focused a lot on the present and the future of reproductive health in this country.

But now I'd like to share a look at the past from our sister show Embedded.

Their new three-part series, The Network, follows the Brazilian women who discovered a method to have safe abortions regardless of the law.

And as abortion restrictions tighten in the United States, American women have taken note.

We have the first episode here just for you.

And just a warning for listeners, there are some graphic depictions of medical

procedures and abuse in this episode. Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers, and this is Embedded from NPR. We've got a new

series. It's about one of the biggest political and social issues in the United States right now,

abortion. But this isn't a story about the abortion debate, whether abortion is right or wrong,

whether it should be legal or illegal. It's about a set of people on one side of the issue who are

operating regardless of what the law says about abortion.

These people are part of a global movement that's had a major impact on how women have abortions.

And the hosts, Victoria Estrada and Marta Martinez, are going to take us all over the Americas to follow this movement.

They're journalists for Latino USA, that's a public radio show produced by Futuro Media,

and we partnered with them to make this series.

Okay, here's Victoria and Marta.

It was one of those moments when people understand their witnessing history, they remember where they were.

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