Ukraine: The Handoff

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We travel to Ukraine to follow a shipment of abortion pills, and discover a complicated conversation about pregnancy and choice in wartime. Part 2 of our collaboration with Radiolab.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Rough Translation from NPR.
0:02.6	I'm Gregory Warner.
0:03.6	And I'm Molly Webster.
0:04.7	From Radio Lab.
0:05.5	From Radio Lab.
0:06.2	And we are back with our Rough Translation Radio Lab collaboration.
0:10.1	Yes.
0:10.6	The last time we were together, we told you the story of an amateur smuggling operation
0:15.4	bringing abortion pills into Ukraine right after the invasion.
0:18.5	That story was called Ukraine under the counter.
0:21.0	It's in both of our feeds.
0:22.4	Go listen.
0:23.2	And if you don't, spoil or alert.
0:25.8	When we ended that story.
0:27.7	So it was night.
0:28.8	It was like 11, 11 and something.
0:32.5	A Ukrainian woman named Evgenia and her friends have crossed over the border with three moving
0:38.3	boxes of pills.
0:39.6	So it was like, I'm not leaving this pills in my car.
0:44.4	They carry the boxes up to her apartment.
0:46.6	So I was sleeping in my apartment and we weaved with 10,000 abortion.
0:52.9	It was strange.
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