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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

[translation mine] A small white drone took off [spiegel.de] from Frankfurt an der Oder at the end of June and flew over the border to Poland. The remote-controlled device carried two packets of abortion pills as cargo. On the other side of the border, two pregnant women waited and collected the pills immediately. In Poland abortions are illegal. The supply by drone represents help and a sign--and an effective PR stunt.

Behind the action is, among others, the Dutch doctor Rebecca Gomperts. She has founded two organizations to help women in countries where abortion is illegal to nevertheless have an abortion - with help from medication and unusual methods: The organization Women on Waves sails with a Dutch ship to countries in which abortion is illegal. There the activists pick up pregnant women who don't want to carry to term and take them to international waters. There, the abortions are undertaken.

Does the use of a drone and app represent something new, or is it merely another chapter in the history of smuggling? Will the ubiquity of such devices and practices erase national borders?

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