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Several pro-choice groups, including Women on Waves, the Alliance for Choice, the Abortion Rights Campaign, Rosa, and the Labour Allegiance, arranged the historic drone flight to coincide with a pending appeal against a 2015 ruling that found Northern Ireland’s strict abortion laws in violation of human rights legislation.
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The drone delivery was received by protestors who were not pregnant, but ingested the pills as a demonstration of how safe they were. Protests are planned to continue in front of the Belfast Court of Appeal this afternoon, reports The Guardian.
This is not the first time activists have done this. In 2015, Women on Waves used drones to drop the pills into Poland, which has some of the strictest laws in Europe.
With more and more states in the U.S. restricting women’s access to reproductive care, we’d like to extend a warm invitation to our neck of the woods.