The Network: Breaking Bread
Latino USA
Futuro Media and PRX
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today, we're presenting episode 2 of “The Network,” a new series that Latino USA co-produced with NPR’s Embedded podcast.
The network had developed a method that had the potential to get women widespread access to safe abortions. But to make that happen, a whisper network wasn’t enough.
Hosts Marta and Victoria travel across Latin America to trace how the network entered a new era. Women spoke up and teamed up. They challenged each other and sometimes even broke the law.
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| 0:51.7 | Hey there, dear listener, it's Maria Innojosa. |
| 0:55.1 | And today we're sharing with you episode two of the network. |
| 0:59.8 | It's a new series that Latino USA co-produced with NPR's Embedded Podcast. |
| 1:04.6 | Now, if you haven't listened to the first episode, of course, I recommend that you do that first. |
| 1:09.6 | Check it out on the Embedded Feed or listen to last week's Latino USA podcast. |
| 1:15.4 | In the first episode, Latino USA producers, Martha Martinez and Victoria Estrada, traveled to Brazil |
| 1:22.2 | in order to trace the roots of an unexpected discovery, an ulcer pill that could be used to have safe abortions |
| 1:31.2 | without a doctor. A network of Brazilian women started whispering about that pill, cytotech. It's the |
| 1:39.2 | commercial name of misoprostol, which is also known as miso. But that's not where the story ends, because soon, word of that discovery would cross borders, |
| 1:51.0 | and it brought the network into a new era, in which women were using new tactics to get the word |
| 1:56.8 | out, and they started working on a much larger scale. |
| 2:01.5 | Victoria and Martha are going to take it from here. This is episode two of the network. |
| 2:08.3 | Saintoec. That was the name that some Brazilian doctors started calling cytotech in the 1980s, |
| 2:14.4 | because far fewer women were dying from abortion complications, thanks to this ulcer pill. |
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