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The Network: Saint-o-tec

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:41:07
Publish Date: 2025-06-05 07:00:25
Description: In the mid-1980s, an OBGYN in Brazil noticed that far fewer pregnant women at his hospital were dying from abortion complications. It wasn't a coincidence.

Brazilian women had made a discovery that allowed them to safely have abortions at home, despite the country's abortion restrictions. That discovery eventually spread across the globe.

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