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  • Press release: 18-06-2008

    Virgin launches hotline for safe abortion

    Quito, Ecuador June 18, 2008

    The Virgin de Panecillo revealed a banner with the text “Safe abortion, 099004545". The number is from a hotline that will provide women with information about how they can do a safe abortion with pills themselves at home and other information related to sexual health.

    The banner action was done by Women on Waves and Coordinadora Juvenil.

  • Press release: 24.04.2007

    Women on Waves disappointed about new license

    Every year 20 million illegal abortions are preformed and 70 000 women die needlessly as a result of illegal abortions. Women on Waves takes action and fights for safe and legal abortion.

  • Press coverage Poland 2003

    For more then 2 weeks the Women on Waves ship was the main topic in all newspapers, television and radio. Abortion was discussed openly and in depth in the media, on the streets, in homes, bars and parliament. During our stay we witnessed an enormous change in the way the discussion about abortion takes place. In newspapers and on television the issue was finally discussed with substantial arguments and the need for this medical service by women was addressed. Most of the international media also covered the story. BBC news broadcasted several news reports and there have been articles in all main American and European newspapers. A documentary about the project has been made by the BBC programme ‘Correspondent’.

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  • Diary: 

    F 486 przeciwko RU 486

    Marynarka Wojenna Portugalii ma 4 statki tego typu. Dlaczego wysłali na nas 486?

    Zdjęcie F486 Baptista de Andrade, statek wojenny który blokuje drogę Borndiep. Czy portugalska Marynarka Wojenna wie że Mifepristone, tabletka aborcyjna, jest zarejestrowana pod nazwą RU486?

  • Abortion related news around the world

    Here you can find information about political. legal and medical develoments on abortion.

  • Press release: 17-06-2008

    Safe abortion with pills for Ecuadorean women

    The press conference will take place at the Panecillo in Quito at 11.30 with a surprise action during which the abortion helpline will be launched. The hotline (number 593 99004545) will provide women with information explaining how they can do a safe abortion themselves with pills at home.

    For more press information:

    Women on Waves:
    or +31652052561

    Coordinadora Juvenil:
    +593 8 2916415

  • Media Portugal

    The best way to get an impression of the discussion in Portuguese society is to look at the overwhealming press coverage. From august 23 on, we have collected more than 700 newspaper articles. Next to the continuous TV coverage on all channels public and commercial. It shows how our trip has helped to put legal abortion on the agenda again in Portugal.

  • Press coverage Ireland 2001

    More than 200 Irish and international journalists attend the press conference. The ship Aurora is front page news all over the world. BBC Worldnews, CNN, ABC, NBC and numerous other networks and news agencies cover this groundbreaking event.
    Positive press coverage appears in several Irish newspapers. One journalist even apologizes for her middle-class mentality as she had assumed in an earlier article that all Irish women could easily travel to England and that there would be no need for the ship. Another surprise is the CNN online opinion poll. Of the 16,500 participants, 49% are in favor of the ship’s activities.

    Due to the overwhelming amount of media all over the world, the press list that follows is incomplete.

  • Początek politycznej dyskusji

    poglądy na kwestie aborcji podzieliły portugalski rząd.

    Diário de Notícias, Poniedziałek, 30-08-2004: Portugalska prasa doniosła dziś, że w szeregach portugalskiej Partii Socjaldemokratycznej nastąpił rozłam w sprawie decyzji ministra obrony, Paulo Portasa, zakazującej statkowi Kobiet na Falach wstępu na wody terytorialne Portugalii.

  • Juridical position of Women on Waves

    What we can do and what we are allowed to do

    A short explanation of our legal situation by Els Swaab, lawyer of Women on Waves, delivered at the press conference of august 23, 2004.

  • Press release: 18-06-2008

    Virgin launches hotline for safe abortion

    Quito, Ecuador June 18, 2008

    The Virgin de Panecillo revealed a banner with the text “Safe abortion, 099004545". The number is from a hotline that will provide women with information about how they can do a safe abortion with pills themselves at home and other information related to sexual health.

    The banner action was done by Women on Waves and Coordinadora Juvenil.

  • Press release: 17-06-2008

    Safe abortion with pills for Ecuadorean women

    The press conference will take place at the Panecillo in Quito at 11.30 with a surprise action during which the abortion helpline will be launched. The hotline (number 593 99004545) will provide women with information explaining how they can do a safe abortion themselves with pills at home.

    For more press information:

    Women on Waves:
    or +31652052561

    Coordinadora Juvenil:
    +593 8 2916415

  • Press release: 13-4-2007

    Polish parliament voted against proposed amendments in Polish Constitution.

    Protection of dignity from the moment of conception will not be incorporated into Polish Constitution.

  • Press release: 10-4-1007

    "Yes" to legalize abortion in Portugal!!

    On 10th of April Portugal's president ratified a law allowing women to obtain abortions until the 10th week of pregnancy.
    The abortion law will come into force when the government publishes it in official records, probably next month.

  • Press release: 

    Płód ma być chroniony przez polską konstytucję

    by Kinga Manders: Sejm za dwa miesiące podejmie decyzję, czy zmienić artykuł 38. Konstytucji. Artykuł ten gwarantuje prawną ochronę życia każdego człowieka. Liga Polskich Rodzin proponuje dodać "od momentu poczęcia". Za taką zmianą opowiadają się wszystkie trzy partie koalicyjne. Jeśli zmiana ta zostanie zaakceptowana, Polska będzie miała najbardziej restrykcyjne prawo dotyczące aborcji w Europie.

  • Press release: 

    European Parliament debates abortion ship

    European abortion debate turns divisive. By CONSTANT BRAND ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

    BRUSSELS, Belgium -- European Parliament legislators on Thursday turned a fight over abortion rights in Portugal into an emotional and divisive debate on women's rights and the division between church and state.

    (The full text of the debate can be found at website EU
    Please click on Debates to download PDF on your computer.)

  • Press release: 

    Back home from Portugal

    Women on Waves Press release 14 september 2004

    The Women on Waves ship Borndiep arrived back in the Netherlands on Tuesday the 14 th of September The ship and its crew had left for Portugal on august 23 on the invitation of the Portuguese organizations Não te Prives, Youth Action for Peace, UMAR and Club Safe.

  • Press release: 

    Medical Team flies back to the Netherlands Sunday, 12th of september

    Women on Waves Press Release 11-09-2004

    As planned, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, Dr. Gunilla Kleiverda, Gemma Pagano and the rest of our team will return home with flight TAP 662 at 18:00 hours from Lisboa Airport.

  • Press release: 

    Rumours of prosecution exaggerated

    A Portuguese anti-abortion group has accused Rebecca Gomperts of breaking the Portuguese law because she explained on the Portuguese television how an abortion can be done.

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