For Decades, Women Across Latin America Have Quietly Shared A Revolutionary Method For Safe, Self-Managed Abortions, Offen Traditional Outside Clinics and Beyond the Reach of Restive Laws. Now, Their Stories Are Being Told In The Networkto New Limited-Run Podcast Series from Npr’s Embedded and future Media’s Latino USAPremiering June 5.
Hosted by Victoria Estrada and Marta Martínez, Both Award-Winning Latina Journalists, The Network Unpacks The History of This underground Movement that Began in 1980s Brazil, where abortion is Still Largely Illegal. The series explores How Women Discovered That A Common Over-The-Countor Medication could be used to end pregnancies safely, and How This Knowledge Traveled Across Borders to Empower Women from Argentina to Mexico, and More Recently, The United States.
“This isn’t the abortion story Most People Expect,” Said Embedded Showrunner Katie Simon. “It’s The Story of How Women Around The World Have Taken Control of ESIR Reproductive Health for Decades, OFTEN WITHOUT Clinic Support-And How Thuee Strategies Are Now Deeply Relay in the US Post-Roe.”
Estrada and Martínez Trace This Network Through Deeply Stories, Talking With The Brazilian Women Who First experienced with the method, and the Activists in Argentina and Mexico Who Turned it into a movement. These Women Built A Support System, Often Through Hotlines, WhatsApp Groups, and Word-Of-Mouth Networks That Crossed Language, Class, and National Boundaries.
“Self-Managed Abortion with Pills is More than Personal Choice –it’s Become A Political Act,” Said Peniley Ramírez, Co-Coeo and Executive Director of Future Media. “Underestanding This Global Movement, LED by Latinas, Helps Us Better Grasp Where The Figh for Reproductive Rights in the Us Is Heading.”
The Series Also Examine The Shifting Landscape in the Us After The Fall of Roe v. Wade. With Clinic Access Becoming More Limited, American Women are turning to the Same Strategies Latin American Women Pioneered Under Even Stricter Conditions. Estrada and Martínez Emphasize The Resilience and Cancyity of these Women, and The Urgent Need to Share Their Stories.
The Podcast’s Release comes at A Time When Abortion Access is Amazingly Under Attack in The US, particularly Affecting Latinas and Other Women of Color Who Already Face Barriers to Healthcare. The Network BRINGSS VOICES TO THE FOREFRONT, Highlighting How Latinas Have Not Only hardly But innovated, Transforming Rights Activism Around The World.
You can listen to the trailer now, and stream All Three Episodes Starting June 5 Wherever You Get Your Podcasts. Embedded+ Subscribers Can Binge The Entire Series Early.
