We are fighting for womens rights to a safe and legal choice. In many countries, women are criminalised, women are mutilated, women die als a result of criminalising abortion. The facts are are often gruesome and always humiliating violations of human rights.
Every 8 minutes a woman dies needlessly as a result of an unsafe illegal abortion.
Induced abortion is one of the most performed medical interventions. Making abortion illegal does not reduce the number of abortions. 20 million of the 42 million abortions performed annually are illegal and unsafe. Legalization of abortion can prevent unnecessary suffering and death of women.
Quotes and emails
Quotes from emails we received during our sailings to Ireland and Poland.
Do you know that?
Induced abortion is one of the most performed medical interventions on the world even more then for example a secarian section (less than 20.000 in Netherlands, while there are 27.000 abortions, which is one of the lowest abortion rates in the world.
Abortions will always be necessary as a backup even though women will use several forms of contraception. Even when using the best methods such as the contraceptive pill, the chance of failure is 2% each year pill. The pill is 95 to 99.9% effective at preventing pregnancy if used correctly. This means that if 100 women use contraceptives for 30 (15 till 45) years and has regular sexual contact with a man, 60 (60%) of them will still be faced by an unwanted pregnancy.
Abortion laws Worldwide
Approximately 25% of the world population lives in countries with highly restrictive abortion laws, mostly in Latin America, Africa and Asia. These are the countries where abortion is most restricted according to the law. In some countries, such as in Chili, women still go to prison for having an illegal abortion.
abortion myths
People who are against free choice create many myths about abortion which have never been proven.
