Rebecca Gomperts

Rebecca Gomperts is a Dutch artist, human rights activist and physician. She is widely known for the creation of a non-profit organization called Women on Waves; an organization dedicated to the  provision of safe, professional and legal non-surgical abortion services to women in countries with laws that prevent them from terminating unwanted pregnancies.

The medical abortions (abortions done through the use of drugs or combination tablets as far as the 9th week of pregnancy) are performed by having the women in respective countries board a ship which is then sailed out to high seas in order to enable Dutch laws be in effect aboard the ship -- thus allowing them to carry out the medical abortion.

In addition to providing these services, she also aims to shed light on the complications that illegal abortions can cause, as well as offer reproductive counseling and administer contraceptives.

Say Goodbye To Coat Hangers. N.d. Womenonwaves.org. Web. 30 Jan. 2015. <http://www.womenonwaves.org/image/2012/6/15/coathangers.png%28mediaclass-base-page-main.d2c518cc99acd7f6b176d3cced63a653791dedb3%29.jpg>.

Abortion Pills A Gift From God. N.d. Womenonwaves.org. Web. 30 Jan. 2015. <http://www.womenonwaves.org/image/2012/4/4/misoprostol_pills.jpg%28mediaclass-base-page-main.d2c518cc99acd7f6b176d3cced63a653791dedb3%29.jpg>.

Immaculate Contraception. N.d. Womenonwaves.org. Web. 30 Jan. 2015. <http://www.womenonwaves.org/image/2012/4/4/misoprostol_conception.jpg%28mediaclass-base-media-preview.d2c518cc99acd7f6b176d3cced63a653791dedb3%29.jpg>.

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