From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is a Daily.

Today, when the Supreme Court decriminalized abortion with row versus weight in 1973, it

instantly established the United States as a global leader on abortion rights. Decades

ahead of many other countries. But in recent years, there's been a dramatic reversal.

The country that for so long was a beacon to abortion rights activist worldwide, has

been restricting access just as many other countries have finally begun to expand it.

My colleague, Natalie Ketrowov, has been reporting on how, with row itself, now likely to be

overturned, Mexico could suddenly be a model to abortion activists in the U.S.

It's Tuesday, May 17th.

So, Natalie, tell us about the reporting that you have been doing in Mexico in the lead

up to this leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion showing that the U.S. is headed toward

row versus weight being overturned. Why Mexico in this moment?

Yeah, so I've been especially interested in what was going on in Mexico because, of course,

well in advance of the leak, the U.S. had been passing increasingly restrictive abortion

laws all across the country. And in Mexico, you have this example just across the border

of this place where for years abortion had been illegal in the vast majority of states

in all but the rarest of cases. But many women were still getting abortions there. So,

I want to understand how that worked. And so, a few months ago, I traveled to one

of the country's most conservative states, Guanajuato.

Okay, I think we are outside of Las Libreso.

Tamita woman named Veronica Cruz. And who is Veronica Cruz?

She runs an activist organization called Las Libres, which translates to the free ones.

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