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🗓️ 5 June 2025

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Summary

In the mid-1980s, an OBGYN in Brazil noticed that far fewer pregnant women at his hospital were dying from abortion complications. It wasn't a coincidence.

Brazilian women had made a discovery that allowed them to safely have abortions at home, despite the country's abortion restrictions. That discovery eventually spread across the globe.

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0:00.0	This is Ira Glass of This American Life.
0:02.0	Each week on our show, we choose a theme, tell different stories on that theme.
0:06.0	All right, I'm just going to stop right there.
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0:12.0	So instead, I'm going to tell you we've just been on a run of really good shows lately.
0:17.0	Some big, epic emotional stories and some weird funny stuff, too. Download us,
0:22.7	this American life. Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers, and this is Embedded from NPR. We've got a new series.
0:30.4	It's about one of the biggest political and social issues in the United States right now,
0:35.4	abortion. But this isn't a story about the abortion debate,
0:40.0	whether abortion is right or wrong, whether it should be legal or illegal. It's about a set of
0:46.0	people on one side of the issue who are operating regardless of what the law says about abortion.
0:52.2	These people are part of a global movement
0:54.6	that's had a major impact
0:56.3	on how women have abortions.
0:58.9	And the hosts, Victoria Estrada and Marta Martinez,
1:02.5	are going to take us all over the Americas
1:04.7	to follow this movement.
1:06.8	They're journalists for Latino USA,
1:09.0	that's a public radio show produced by Futuro Media.
1:11.9	And we partnered with them to make this series.
1:15.3	Okay, here's Victoria and Marta.
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