Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers, and this is Embedded from NPR. We are back with our series, The Network.

If you haven't already heard the first two episodes, go and listen to those. We've been following

this particular part of the abortion rights movement, from Brazil to Argentina to Mexico.

These activists are part of a loosely connected network

that helps women have abortions with pills, but without a doctor.

The network and their method took off in countries

where women didn't have a legal option for an abortion.

And now that's the situation for a lot of Americans

since Roe v. Wade was overturned. So in this final episode of the series

hosts Victoria Estrada and Marta Martinez take us to the U.S. Here's the final episode of the

network. For decades, while people all over the world were embracing self-managed abortion with miso-prostal, most Americans had never even heard of it.

And many of those who had dismissed it.

For being a foreign concept.

It was always like, oh, well, yeah, but those are other countries.

That doesn't apply here.

For being irrelevant, because for decades, Americans had a legal right to abortion.

There was a lot of disbelief that something like this was needed in the United States.

A big part of our narrative is that we have abortion access, right?

Or they dismissed it for sounding dangerous.

I didn't think it was safe.

You know, as doctors were risk-adverse, and we like control.

This is Dr. Maya Bass, a family doctor who also provides abortions, either by performing the

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