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Storm on climate change awaits pope's environment letter The pills are not available in Poland and Jula Gaweda of the feminist organization Feminoteka said that Pope to reporters: ‘Send me good vibrations’ two Polish women who were not pregnant swallowed them as part of the "symbolic" stunt organized by Dutch prochoice campaign group Women on Waves. More World Stories "The operation went well," Gaweda told AFP. Top Stories "It's a symbolic operation designed to show that just a few kilometers (between the takeoff and the landing site) can be a gulf in terms of respect for women's rights, reproductive rights which are human Only between man and woman: CBCP stands firm on marriage rights," she said, adding that the pills were provided by a Dutch gynecologist. Palace to Congress, judiciary: Help address human rights problems Activists launched the drone in the German city of Frankfurt an der Oder, flying it over the river to the PHL laws need revision to allow samesex bordering Polish town of Slubice. marriage —Atty. Kapunan Lawmaker: Obamacare to create bigger A dozen antiabortion protesters gathered at the landing site and gave out plastic fetuses to the pro demand for Pinoy healthcare professionals choice activists, Gaweda said, adding that several plainclothes police officers attended the event without intervening. advertisement Poland, whose population is 90 percent Catholic, only allows abortion within 12 weeks of pregnancy in cases of rape or incest, or 24 weeks in cases of irreversible fetal malformation or a threat to the mother's life. After 24 weeks of pregnancy, the procedure is allowed on a casebycase basis if the mother's life is at risk. The government did however recently authorize the morningafter pill. Women on Waves has over the years sent "abortion boats" to countries including Ireland, Portugal and Spain to provide women with free treatment that circumvents strict abortion laws. 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