Polish campaigners have placed what they describe as the world's first parcel locker for abortion pills on a Warsaw street, painted pink and framed by zebra-striped curtains. A woman retrieves pills using a six-digit code — no waiting at a pharmacy, no package arriving at home, no name attached to the transaction.
The Guardian reports the service was designed specifically for situations where speed matters and discretion is not optional: a missed miscarriage, health complications, or simple fear of the pills being intercepted at home. Poland's restrictions on abortion have not changed under the current government as quickly as many activists had expected, and the gap between what the law permits and what women need has pushed campaigners toward increasingly practical workarounds.
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