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Hey, Invisibilia listeners, Abby Wendell here, a former reporter and producer for the podcast.

A few years ago, I reported a story called A Little Bit Pregnant about how some people are using

the ambiguity of early pregnancy to restore reproductive

autonomy. They're doing that in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade,

which ended the constitutional right to abortion in 2022. While I was working on that story,

I stumbled across another story about the origins of the most common abortion method in the world today.

It's a story that despite all the coverage of abortion in the U.S., most Americans have never heard before.

And it's stayed with me all these years later because it challenged the way I understood access to a safe abortion

and what it looks like in a post-row America. I'm excited to share the beginning of that story with

you now. It's the first episode of a series I've been working on called The Network, and it comes

from NPR's Embedded Podcast. A few things before we dive in. This is a story about abortion,

but it's not about the abortion debate, whether abortion is right or wrong, whether it should be

legal or illegal. Instead, 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.

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