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5/31/18

Pro-Choice Activists Take Abortion Pills Outside Belfast Courthouse to Protest Draconian Abortion Law

On Thursday, a few days after the Republic of Ireland voted in a referendum to overturn its nearly absolute ban on…

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Poland Has Abortion Drones. We Need Abortion Drones.

Last week, the Dutch abortion activists of Women on Waves successfully flew a quadcopter carrying abortion-inducing…

Natasha Vargas-Cooper

7/07/15 1:00PM

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1/13/15

Now Streaming: <i>VESSEL</i>, A Doc About the Law-Defying Abortion Ship

Now Streaming: VESSEL, A Doc About the Law-Defying Abortion Ship

Here's a great new documentary for anyone interested in activism and reproductive rights! VESSEL centers around…

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Interview: Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, Who Brought Women Abortions By Sea

If you read Emily Bazelon's remarkable feature "The Dawn of the Post-Clinic Abortion" in the New York Times…

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‘Abortion Ship’ Aims to Dock in Morocco Despite Wary Moroccan Officials

Women on Waves, a Dutch organization of abortion-providing privateers that has frustrated religiously conservative,…

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Facebook Sparks Controversy By Removing Home Abortion Instructions

An activist for the Dutch women's rights organization Women on Waves posted instructions for a home abortion as her…

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Dutch "Abortion Ship" Has Wind Taken Out Of Its Sails

For 10 years, Rebecca Gomperts' ship, the Aurora, has been sailing to countries where abortion is illegal and,…

Megan Carpentier

7/29/09 1:40PM

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