{"id":66248,"date":"2015-07-10T16:36:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T20:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=66248"},"modified":"2015-07-11T13:41:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T17:41:12","slug":"women-waves-declares-ireland-next-abortion-drone-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/women-waves-declares-ireland-next-abortion-drone-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Women on Waves declares Ireland next abortion drone target"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The Dutch pro-abortion group Women on Waves intends to send another \u201cabortion drone\u201d to Ireland, World Magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmag.com\/2015\/07\/pro_abortion_group_plans_more_drone_attacks_on_pro_life_countries\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Live Action News has <a href=\"\/news\/poland-abortion-drone-another-example-abortion-industrys-lawless-behavior\/\">previously covered<\/a>, last month the group remotely flew a drone from Germany to deliver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2015\/06\/22\/abortion-drone-will-fly-dangerous-abortion-pills-to-poland-to-violate-its-pro-life-laws\/\">potentially harmful<\/a> RU-486 pills to women in Poland. Though elective abortion is illegal in the country, Women on Waves exploited the fact that its laws do not punish pregnant women themselves for the act, and used a drone that was small and short-range enough to bypass\u00a0flight authorization.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Women on Waves declared the original event successful, though German police <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/drones-deliver-abortion-pills-to-women-in-poland\/\">confiscated<\/a> their remotes and iPads afterward. Authorities will attempt to press charges for violating the country\u2019s medical laws, but the activists maintain their actions were perfectly legal, as they obtained a prescription for the pills.<\/p>\n<p>Jula Gaweda of the Polish pro-abortion group Feminoteka hailed the drone campaign as \u201ca symbolic operation designed to show that just a few kilometers can be a gulf in terms of respect for women\u2019s rights, reproductive rights which are human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Women on Waves Founder Rebecca Gomperts has declared the campaign\u2019s next target to be Ireland, which has an abortion ban\u00a0even stricter\u00a0than Poland\u2019s. As Live Action News has recently covered, Ireland\u2019s pro-life status is a frequent target of <a href=\"\/news\/pro-life-campaign-rebukes-un-liberalizing-irish-abortion-laws\/\">international pressure<\/a>,\u00a0drawing fire from\u00a0the United Nations, as well as from\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/pro-abortion-letter-dares-irish-authorities-arrest-taking-abortifacients\/\">domestic protestors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch pro-abortion group Women on Waves intends to send another \u201cabortion drone\u201d to Ireland, World Magazine reports. As Live Action News has previously covered, last month the group remotely flew a drone from Germany to deliver potentially harmful RU-486 pills to women in Poland. Though elective abortion is illegal in the country, Women on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":65239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[3838,1604,200,3833,3863,4081,2812,3525],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Women on Waves declares Ireland next abortion drone target - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Women on Waves Founder Rebecca Gomperts has declared the campaign\u2019s next target to be Ireland, which has an abortion ban even stricter than Poland\u2019s.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/women-waves-declares-ireland-next-abortion-drone-target\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Women on Waves declares Ireland next abortion drone target - 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