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Meet the woman sending abortion drugs to Poland by drone
newstatesman.com ^ | 23 June, 2015 | Barbara Speed

Posted on 06/25/2015 7:23:40 PM PDT by Morgana

At around midday on Saturday, a drone will touch down in Słubice, a small town on Poland's western border. Its cargo? Several doses each of the drugs Mifepristone and Misoprostol, which, taken together, constitute an abortion.

“This is not an air drop,” Rebecca Gomperts tells me over the phone, days before the delivery is due to take place. “This is an individual delivery method – we’re not dropping bags full of abortion pills into Poland.” At the moment, Gomperts and her team at Women on Waves are planning to deliver “less than five” doses to individual women who need them during the drone’s single trip across the border. But there’s a good chance the drugs may never reach their destination: “We’ve already heard that there will be people trying to shut down the drone.”

For the past few months, Gomperts and her team, along with partner women's organisations in Poland, have been figuring out a way to get the drugs across the border from Frankfurt, Germany, where abortion is legal, into Poland, one of the handful of European countries where it is not. As long as the drone remains in eyesight of the operator, carries non-commercial cargo, and doesn’t carry a package weighing more than 5kg, they believe they’re on the right side of the law. The pills, meanwhile, can only be used by women in their first nine weeks of pregnancy, and don't require a doctor's supervision.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortionpill; drone; feminists; poland; prolife; womenonwaves

1 posted on 06/25/2015 7:23:40 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Evil is pressing us all along the front.


2 posted on 06/25/2015 7:24:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Morgana

what kind of evil makes people so eager to kill babies?


3 posted on 06/25/2015 7:24:56 PM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz - to defeat HilLIARy/Warren)
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To: Morgana

what kind of evil makes people so eager to kill babies?


4 posted on 06/25/2015 7:24:57 PM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz - to defeat HilLIARy/Warren)
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To: Mr. K

The kind of evil that built the High Places.Particularly Molech’s.


5 posted on 06/25/2015 7:31:16 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: Morgana

This is a publicity stunt to bring attention to the lengths people will go to kill babies. There is no need to smuggle anything from Germany in to Poland. I’ve driven, many times, across the bridge at Frankfurt Am Oder.

Poland does treasure babies. Abortion is illegal. It is still a very conservative pro family country.

Although I do disagree with their policy on vasectomies and tubal ligation. They are also illegal.


6 posted on 06/25/2015 7:39:40 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Morgana

Note: Mifepristone = RU-486

The protocol is to take it with vaginal application of Misoprostol.


7 posted on 06/25/2015 7:51:22 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: Morgana
She's a Doctor. Ostensibly.


8 posted on 06/25/2015 8:39:22 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Morgana

Send a drone after it to shoot it down.


9 posted on 06/25/2015 8:42:22 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: SamuraiScot

Send a Drone after it to abort it


10 posted on 06/25/2015 9:08:57 PM PDT by annieokie
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To: Morgana; 2ndDivisionVet
Here in Poland, the government bans all abortions exceptin case of:

and you know how many abortions we have a year on average? 800

That's in a population 1/10th that of the USA

So if the USA bans abortions except in these three cases there would be 8000 deaths, not 1 million per year.

11 posted on 06/25/2015 11:38:57 PM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Morgana; 2ndDivisionVet

And before they implemented abortion bans at the end of communism, the number of babies killed per year was 108,000


12 posted on 06/25/2015 11:39:34 PM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Cronos

Sickening.

That ANNUAL number of infanticides, while (cynically) representing a lot of taxpayers, is also a complete waste of potential creativity and philanthropy.

And that’s just before the fact that we’re still actually killing people. The world is underpopulated, not overpopulated. It’s overpopulated by evil people.


13 posted on 06/25/2015 11:46:40 PM PDT by SunLakesJeff
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To: Morgana

I hope somebody shoots down the drone.


14 posted on 06/26/2015 12:00:22 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cancer-free since 1988! US out of UN! UN out of US!)
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To: SaveFerris

I’m sure she uses Hippocratic Oath brand bathroom tissue.


15 posted on 06/26/2015 12:01:57 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cancer-free since 1988! US out of UN! UN out of US!)
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To: Morgana

That ‘border’ is purely geographical these days - they could just drive or walk over. No controls whatsoever.


16 posted on 06/26/2015 5:03:12 AM PDT by Moltke (The tagline that was here previously has suddenly disappeared)
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