We became outside agitators.

Getting arrested and jailed.

That was a serious concern.

It was a move of desperation.

Back in the 90s, atad group pulled off an international drug smuggling scheme and even

secretly cooked up tablets of their own.

We're afraid that the lab would get blown up.

But these revolutionaries weren't trafficking narcotics.

They were working with a different kind of drug.

What those pills give us is privacy and body sovereignty and that is profound to have a handful of pills.

It was 1992.

A new abortion pill was on the market in Europe and Asia, but it was banned in the United States.

So an unlikely group of allies did everything they could to change that.

Because we knew it had to be done.

You only get one chance.

And of course we found a punk.

Since Roe versus Wade was overturned last year, all eyes are on the abortion

pill. Today, the medication accounts for nearly 60% of all procedures nationwide, not surgery.

But the story of how this revolutionary drug came into the picture

hasn't really been told before.

And it's a story that sounds almost too wild to be true.

They picked us up at the airport and we got into vans.

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