Rebecca Gomperts

[9] After graduating from medical school, Gomperts worked in a small hospital in Guiana as a trainee doctor.

[4] Between 1997 and 1998, Gomperts sailed with a Greenpeace ship called the Rainbow Warrior II as a resident physician and environmental activist.

[11] Gomperts used contacts she had made during art school to help her design and fund a mobile clinic.

This meant that whenever a transport ministry tried to confiscate the container on national waters, the certification of the A-Portable as a sculpture made its border crossing legal.

Concerns expressed included the safety of patients traveling to and from the ship, follow-up care to avoid infection, and whether Women on Waves would even be allowed to anchor in some ports to offer training, contraceptives and information.

News spread quickly that Gomperts was trying to reach countries where abortion was illegal, and many nations took measures to stop her.

[11] "In the end our ship will never be a structural solution for the enormous number of women who need abortions",[4] said Gomperts.

[14] These four installations, Portrait Collector, Sea, I Had An Abortion and Every 6 Minutes, were presented in the Mediamatic Women on Waves show.

[14] Portrait Collector was a collection of internet kiosks where viewers who had had abortions could photograph themselves and become part of the exhibition.

It allowed viewers to walk into the portable container that was transformed into an abortion clinic and sailed across international waters.

[7] Women on Web launched an ad campaign that utilized barcodes hidden in plain sight within images.

[12] If scanned, the barcodes provided viewers with information on the abortion pill[12] In 2023 Gomperts left the organisation, where she had remained as the scientific director.

[4] Aid Access initially has shipped mifepristone and misoprostol from a pharmacy in India to "tens of thousands of people in the USA",[17] who complete online forms, exclude contraindications, and report a gestation of 10 weeks or less.

[19] Rebecca Gomperts co-authored almost 100 science papers, the most cited of which are: Telemedicine for medical abortion: a systematic review, M Endler, A Lavelanet, A Cleeve, B Ganatra, R Gomperts, ...BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 126 (9), 1094-1102 Using telemedicine for termination of pregnancy with mifepristone and misoprostol in settings where there is no access to safe services, RJ Gomperts, K Jelinska, S Davies, K Gemzell‐Danielsson, G Kleiverda, BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 115 (9), 1171-1178 Self reported outcomes and adverse events after medical abortion through online telemedicine: population based study in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, ARA Aiken, I Digol, J Trussell, R Gomperts, bmj 357 Requests for abortion in Latin America related to concern about Zika virus exposure, ARA Aiken, JG Scott, R Gomperts, J Trussell, M Worrell, CE Aiken, New England Journal of Medicine 375 (4), 396-398 2001: Women of the year, Ms magazine 2002: Clara Meijer-Wichmann Penning 2002 : Women making History award by Planned Parenthood of New York City 2004: “Margaret Sanger Woman of Valor Award” Planned Parenthood New York City 2005: The 1000 PeaceWomen are activists from around the world who were collectively nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.