Aaron I saw something weird on the internet the other day.

Max, I thought I told you that despite the cute name, that subreddit is a bad place.

No, no, I'm staying away.

The weird thing I saw was a headline that said that in the two years since Roe v. Wade was

overturned which was supposed to be like the big victory for the anti-abortion

movement and did lead to all these red state abortion bans

that despite all that the number of abortions in the US has actually gone up?

Ah yeah, you're operating under the assumption that banning something makes people do it less.

Okay, well usually that's how it works.

Yeah, well you're not wrong to be surprised.

When the Supreme Court handed down their Dobbs decision in 2022,

anti-abortion advocates celebrated what they hoped was the beginning of the end of abortion in America, a victory nearly 50 years in the making.

But what happened was not total anti-abortion victory, not at all because now the

anti-choice side got another word of fight, one that they did not see coming

but might be even tougher for them than Roe

thanks to a drug called Mifipristone.

And we saw the first battle in that war at the Supreme Court just this week.

I'm Erin Ryan. I'm Max Fisher and this is how we got here a

series where Aaron and I explore a big question behind the week's headlines and

tell a story that answers that question. This week, how did Miffa Pristone, aka R.E.

486, become public enemy number one of the anti-abortion movement?

And does its popularity mean that the pro-choice side is quietly winning? That's kind of what it sounds

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