The drone crossed from the Republic of Ireland near the village of Omeath over a narrow stretch of water that separates both states on the island. Based in the Netherlands, the pro-abortion group advertises risky, mail-order abortion drugs to women across the world.
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Women on Web said that it had employed a speedboat to send over more pills for women in addition to the drone flight.
Women on Web helps women around the globe get the information and drugs they need to induce their own abortions.
Ireland’s laws are similarly strict: abortion remains illegal in the country unless it’s part of a medical intervention to save the mother’s life.
“The action is an act of solidarity from women in the south, where abortion is criminalized”, Rita Harrold from Irish abortion activist group ROSA told theGuardian, “with women in the North, where abortion is also criminalized and unfortunately there have recently been a number of prosecutions”.
A coalition of women’s rights groups has used a drone to fly abortion pills from the Irish Republic into Northern Ireland.
In more recent years, they have placed greater emphasis on advising women across the world how to obtain abortion pills illegally (including sending such pills themselves) and using drones.
And he said it was not up to the Court of Appeal to “reinforce the right of women and girls to access safe and legal abortion health services in Northern Ireland”. We are governed in Northern Ireland by an Act which is dated 1861, which is in the dark ages, it’s like when dinosaurs were on earth.
In other words, this is a politicized, attention-getting stunt.
If a woman in either country wants an abortion, she generally has to travel to the United Kingdom mainland to get one from a private clinic, at personal expense.
“Instead, it has one goal which is to attract as much media attention as possible for the campaign for wide-ranging abortion”, Slattery said.
Judge Horner ruled the failure to provide exceptions to the law in certain limited circumstances breached a woman’s right to privacy.
Slattery continued: “While the motivation behind the drone stunt is to undermine Ireland’s legal protection for the unborn child, all it does is destroy the credibility of the organisers who are showing reckless disregard for the lives of women and their unborn babies”.
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“I took the pills to counter the lies of anti-choice groups and some politicians that these pills aren’t safe”, she told Telegraph Women. Efforts to promote these drugs, which harm women and kill babies, or to sell them online, like Women on Waves does, is irresponsible and risky.
