The Network: Saint-o-tec

Latino USA

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re presenting the first episode of “The Network,” a new series that Latino USA co-produced with NPR’s Embedded podcast.

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	When I founded Futuro, I imagined a home for journalism with radical transparency.
0:06.5	I wanted a newsroom where I wasn't the only Latina behind the mic.
0:12.1	Now Futuro is becoming a home for more voices than ever.
0:17.9	Help grow this future by joining our new membership program. You'll get exclusive interviews,
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0:32.0	Plus. Visit our website, Futuromediagroup.org slash join plus.
0:38.6	And not you buy yes.
0:44.0	Futureo.
0:51.9	Dear listener, it's Maria Innojosa. And before we start, I want to give you a heads up because this is not a regular Latino USA episode.
1:01.8	Today, we're presenting the first episode of The Network, which is a new series that Latino USA co-produced with NPR's Embedded Podcast.
1:11.9	Now, this series is about something that is really relevant in the United States right now,
1:16.9	and that is abortion, but it's not the story you might be expecting.
1:23.1	Our series follows women across the Americas who discovered a method to have safe abortions without
1:30.2	doctors in countries where abortion was pretty much banned. And these women changed how people
1:38.6	access abortion not only in their countries, but around the world, including right here in the United States today.
1:47.0	For over a year, Latino USA producers, Victoria Estrada, and Martha Martinez have been reporting on this story.
1:55.1	And now they're going to take us all over the Americas to follow this movement made up of women's networks.
2:03.3	Here now are Martha and Victoria with the first episode of The Network.
2:09.1	It was one of those moments when people understand their witnessing history.
2:14.5	They remember where they were.
2:16.3	I was standing at my standing desk in my house,
2:20.8	waiting, and I just started crying at my desk. It was totally surreal. They remember where they
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