For years, women in latin america had been secretly using this pill, missa proste, to cause abortions. It's actually an ulcer medication that, often through word of mouth, women came to realize also function as an abortion pill. These doctors who had been largely unwilling to provide abortions to women who aren't victims of rape, now seem to be kind of willing to look the other way. And i think it really has to do with this shift from surgical abortions to pills.
When the Supreme Court decriminalized abortion with Roe v. Wade, it established the United States as a global leader on abortion rights, decades ahead of many other countries.
Now, with Roe likely to be overturned, we look to Mexico, a country where the playbook for securing legalized abortion could be a model for activists in the United States.
Guest: Natalie Kitroeff, a correspondent covering Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean for The New York Times.
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