Friday, June 24, 2016

The 'Abortion Drone' Strikes Again -- This Time In Northern Ireland

Tuesday morning, something flew into the airspace of Northern Ireland. It wasn’t a bird, it wasn’t a plane — it was an abortion drone, carrying the means for safe pregnancy termination for women in protest of the strict abortion laws governing Ireland.

The drone carried abortion pills containing mifepristone and misoprostol, which together are considered the gold standard for medical abortion. The drugs are safe for women to use up to 10 weeks into a pregnancy. It set off from the Republic of Ireland and flew to Northern Ireland, where it landed and two women took the pills, according to a press release.

The women who took the pills didn’t say whether they were pregnant or not, according to the Telegraph, arguing that was private medical information....
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2016/06/21/3790692/abortion-drone-ireland/


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