‘Women are capable of doing this’: the doctor defying local laws to provide safe abortions by sea or mail
by Moira Donegan from on (#5SYP7)
Dr Rebecca Gomperts made waves providing abortion in international waters around the world. Now she's prepared to help American women
It's Sunday morning, less than a week after the US supreme court signaled that it was ready to pave the way for new restrictions on abortion rights in the US, and I'm on the phone with a Dutch abortion provider who has watched the proceedings from half a world away.
Dr Rebecca Gomperts tells me that she's shocked with the situation in Texas, which recently enacted a near total ban on legal abortion - not because the state government passed the law, but because doctors in the state are largely complying with it.
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