Veronica estimates that she's now helped around 20 thousand women in mexico havet kind of abortion with pills. The idea is that once one man has an abortion this way, she'll become someone who helps the next woman and so on. She says it's at this point that she starts to question that us model which had been so inspiring to her all these years.
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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