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In the weeks following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a young doctor in Germany sees that abortion pills are urgently needed in Ukraine. And she wants to help. But getting the drugs into the country means going through Poland, which has some of the strictest abortion laws in Europe. So, she gets creative. What unfolds is a high-stakes, covert-operation run by a group of strangers. With everyone deciding: who to trust? In collaboration with NPR\u2019s\xa0Rough Translation\xa0(https://zpr.io/9UpCwb2Smjzw), we find out what happened.\xa0Part 1 of 2 episodes.Special thanks\xa0to Wojciech Oleksiak, Katy Lee, Maria Hlazunova, Valeria Fokina, Sara Furxhi, Noel King, Robert Krulwich and Sana Krasikov, and our homies over at Rough Translation. Thanks also to Micah Loewinger and Laura Griffin. Illustrations came from Oksana Drachkovska.\xa0\nAnd thank you to the many sources and experts we interviewed who asked to remain anonymous.\nEpisode Credits:Guest hosted by - Gregory Warner and Molly WebsterReported by - Katz LaszloProduced by - Daniel Girma and Tessa PaoliMixer - Gilly Moonwith mixing help from - Jeremy BloomFact-checking by - Marisa Robertson-Textorand Edited by - Brenna Farrell\nCITATIONS:\nVideos\n\nWatch Deutsche Welle\u2019s Abortion in Europe documentary\xa0(https://zpr.io/YHctj4bZQwHM).\n\nPodcasts\n\nListen to Eleanor MacDowell\u2019s A Sense of Quietness\xa0(https://zpr.io/eHhcHusxrhfE) on the BBC.\nListen to NPR\u2019s Joanna Kakissis\u2019s story This Secretive Network Helps Ukranian Refugees Find Abortions in Poland\xa0(https://zpr.io/LsQw9V6ByfFg).\nOur reporter, Katz Laszlo, reports on European current affairs and reproductive health, and produces for The Europeans\xa0(https://zpr.io/sHAvrvqU2m8t)\xa0podcast, which features stories across the continent, including in Ukraine.\xa0\nOur collaborators, NPR\u2019s Rough Translation\xa0(https://zpr.io/9UpCwb2Smjzw)\n\nOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)!Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today.Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org.\n\nLeadership support for Radiolab\u2019s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.