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‘Abortion drone' delivers abortion pills to Poland women

WARSAW: Feminist activists on Saturday sent a drone from Germany to Poland carrying abortion pills to highlight the staunchly Catholic country's restrictive abortion laws.

The pills are not available in Poland and Jula Gaweda of the feminist organisation Feminoteka said that two Polish women -- who were not pregnant -- swallowed them as part of the "symbolic" stunt organised by Dutch pro-choice campaign group Women on Waves.

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