In between sessions, she fell into conversation with a group of Brazilian women in the hallway, who talked about a pill she had never heard of before: Cytotec, the commercial name of misoprostol. The ...

(Louisiana Illuminator) - When a woman starts bleeding out after labor, every second matters. But soon, under a new state law, Louisiana doctors might not be able to quickly access one of the most ...

One day, she saw the doctor use a new method: misoprostol, the ulcer medication that women in Brazil first started using for abortions in the late 1980s. An underground network of feminists and ...

In November 1990, more than 3,000 women descended on the sleepy beach town of San Bernardo del Tuyú, Argentina, for what was becoming a legendary event. Activists, doctors, academics, social workers ...