I'm Ayesha Roscoe, and this is The Sunday Story,
where we go beyond the news to bring you one big story.
Three years ago this week, the Supreme Court issued a historic ruling overturning Roe v. Wade,
the case that gave women a constitutional right to abortion.
The biggest change to abortion rights in the United States in nearly half a century is here.
The Supreme Court upended nearly a half century of legal precedent.
Since that decision,
nearly 40% of states have passed laws either banning or further restricting abortion.
But even with these new restrictions, abortion rates across the country have actually been rising.
Women are still finding ways to have abortions, and one of the main ways is taking abortion pills.
In fact, Pills account for about two-thirds of abortions in the U.S. healthcare system.
There's a surprising history to one of those abortion pills,
and that's the focus of a three-part series,
The Network, produced by Futuro Media and our colleagues over at Embedded.
The Network traces how, for decades,
a loosely connected network of women across the Americas have helped people access abortions despite restrictions and bans.
They've done this by providing each other with pills and support outside the formal health care system.
The series also explores the pushback that these women have faced from abortion opponents.
When we come back, I sit down with the host of the series, Marta Martinez and Victoria Estrada.
They travel to Brazil,