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HARDtalk: Rebecca Gomperts

29/10/2013 GMT

BBC World News - HARDtalk, Rebecca Gomperts

Zeinab Badawi talks to Women on Waves founder, Doctor Rebecca Gomperts.

Women on Waves provides abortions and contraception in countries where terminating pregnancy is illegal or restricted. Zeinab Badawi talks to its founder, Doctor Rebecca Gomperts.

Is access to abortion a human right for women everywhere in the world? Women on Waves has for more than ten years provided abortions and contraception to women who live in countries where terminating pregnancy is illegal or restricted. The organisation was set up by the Dutch doctor Rebecca Gomperts who hires a ship registered under Dutch law and sails into international waters to provide abortion. How does she justify helping women ignore the social, religious and political climate in their own countries?

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