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Mexico is expected to elect its first woman president on Sunday. Writer Alice Driver explores the contrast in gender equality in the US, where two men will yet again face off in presidential elections.

As the Supreme Court decides whether to allow access restrictions to the abortion drug mifepristone, a network of providers is working to help women in states with bans.

Since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, more women have been crossing the border to Mexico for abortion medications and procedures.

How activists, clinicians, and businesses are getting abortion medication to all 50 states.

“Whoever needs our help, we would be happy to serve.”

Images of scared and vulnerable Mexican women wading through the Rio Grande and crawling under barbed wire to cross the border into the United States have long been commonplace.

Clinics in Tijuana and Mexico City, as well as activists in the northwestern city of Hermosillo, say they have seen women crossing the border from Texas, Louisiana and Arizona seeking access to abortion.

American women are seeking help from Mexico for abortions, crystallizing the shifting policies of two nations that once held vastly different positions on the procedure.

After the Dobbs decision, a network of abortion pill providers has sprung up from Mexico to help immigrants on the other side of the border.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Womens rights activists in Latin America have long looked to the United States as a model in their decades-long struggle to chip away at abortion restrictions in their highly religious countries.