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Outlaw Ocean Podcast: How the High Seas Became a Metaphor for Freedom

The lawlessness of the oceans provides space to absurd and remarkable stories of renegades and mavericks of all sorts seeking to escape national sover...

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How the 'abortion pill' could work as birth control

Activists are trying to establish the contraceptive efficacy of mifepristone, a medication currently known as an "abortion pill," with crowdfunded research.

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coast and therefore a few miles out of reach of oppressive state laws. the idea is that for many women in texas, louisiana, alabama, mississippi, it might be closer and easier, and cheaper, to get to a vote. to get to a floating clinic a few miles off the coast, rather than trying to fly or drive to the nearest state where abortion is legal. this project is still in the fundraising stage. for starters doctor autry needs a boat to make this happen. but it is sort of painted guy and crisis might seem in first blush, there is really salient and extensive experience of doing this kind of thing for women who are seeking abortions. a couple of years ago we spoke with doctor rebecca -- a dutch doctor who spent decades figure out innovative ways to get abortion services to places where abortion is illegal. her organization, women on waves, has spent years providing abortions on ships, floating in international waters. the work that she has been doing globally, figure out how

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really salient and extensive experience of doing this kind of thing for women who are seeking abortions. a couple of years ago we spoke with doctor rebecca -- a dutch doctor who spent decades figure out innovative ways to get abortion services to places where abortion is illegal. her organization, women on waves, has spent years providing abortions on ships, floating in international waters. the work that she has been doing globally, figure out how to get women abortion services for the countries where they have made it illegal, that is now work that needs to be done here inside the united states as well. figuring out how to get abortion services to women in states where it is illegal, hold that thought, we will be right back with more. re

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salient and extensive experience of doing this sort of thing for women seeking abortions. a couple of weeks ago we spoke with dr. rebecca, a dutch doctor who has spent decades figuring out innovative ways to get abortion services to women in countries where abortion is illegal. her organization, women on waves has spent years providing abortions on ships, floating in international waters. and the work that she has been doing globally figuring out how to get one, abortion services where countries made it illegal, that is now work that needs to be done here, inside the united states as well. figuring out how to get abortion services to women in states where it is illegal. on that thought, we'll be right back with more. is illegal. on tha t thought, we'll be right back with more

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amazing amount of incredible people that you have already talked to about in your show that are determined to improve or create access for individuals who don't have it. >> is this plan, is this project based at all off the kinds of similar work that has happened internationally? we had a doctor on the show, talking about her international experience in other countries where abortion has been illegal. have you, is this consciously based on that, are you informed at all during her experience in other countries? >> so i came up with the idea completely separately, but was quickly alerted to the doctor's efforts and have spoken to her. so it is a little bit different. she, as you know, had women on waves, which was on international waters, off the coast of ireland, and my understanding focused mostly on medical abortions. so it's federal waters in the u.s., and different legal and

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america, one in which an overseas organization like aid access, will not be the only way to get a telemedicine abortion in states, and maybe the only way period to get an abortion in about half the states in the union. the work that dr. gothenburg has been doing globally, figuring out how to get women abortion services, when their countries have made it illegal, that's now work that i need to be done across borders inside the united states as well. figure out how to get abortion services to women in states where it is illegal. the time has come, what do americans now need to learn, what can americans learn from somebody who has been doing this pioneering work for decades. joining us now is doctor rebecca -- our founder of women on waves, and giving access, doctor, i appreciate you joining us especially given how late it is where you are. it's really kind of you to be here. >> thank you so much, rachel, for finding me, inviting me to the show.

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the time has come, what do americans now need to learn, what can americans learn from somebody who has been doing this pioneering work for decades. joining us now is a doctor rebecca. she is the founder of women on waves, and aid access. doctor, i really appreciate you joining us, especially given how late it is where you are. it's really kind of you to be here. >> thank you so much rachel, for inviting me to your show. >> let me ask you, first, about the roe v. wade decision by the united states supreme court. i think it was not, it could not be described as a surprise in this country, even though i think it was still a shock. i know enough about your work to know that you probably saw it coming, better than maybe some of us here did. and you are also taking steps, even ahead of that ruling, to try to mitigate some of the severe restrictions that states had already put on abortion access, even with the row lost, law still in place.

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intimate decisions in their lives. it's now apparently gonna affect within days, another way for women in states with abortion bans, to access abortion maybe for them to get abortion pills, which again you can use for many abortions in the first ten weeks or so a pregnancy. if you get abortion pills, prescribed by a provider overseas, provider in another country, who is therefore beyond the reach of u.s. state laws, designed to block that sort of thing. that is an approach pioneered by a doctor named, rebecca gomperts. she's a dutch doctor. she has spent decades figuring out innovative ways, to get abortion services to women in countries where abortion is illegal. her organization, women on waves, has, for example, provided abortions on ships, floating in international waters. she then created women on web, to male abortion pills to patients all around the globe. in 2018, she saw into the

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the united states as well. figuring out how to get abortion services to women in states where it is illegal. the time now, for americans who have done pioneering work for decades. joining us is the doctor, the founder of women on waves and aid access. doctor, i appreciate you joining us. especially given how late it is where you are. it is really kind of you to be here. >> thank you so much, rachel. i'm glad to be with you. >> let me ask you first about the roe v. wade decision by the united states supreme court. i think it could not be described as a surprise in this country, even though i think it was still a shock. i know enough about your work to know that you probably saw it coming better than maybe some of us here did, and you have also taken steps even ahead of that ruling to try to mitigate some of the severe restrictions that

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