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O My God, this is so fucking classic. Women on Waves is an activist group sailing under a Dutch flag, with the purpose of providing reproductive education and safe, legal abortion services on ships slightly off the coasts of nations where abortion is otherwise illegal. Privateers for reproductive rights! (And I mean that in the most positive way, as a fan of piracy and anyone who grabs autonomy or anarchy when they are outside the reach of monarchs and capitalists.)
From their Activities page: By providing abortion services outside territorial waters, women and abortion providers cannot be charged or prosecuted when returning to port because applicability of national penal legislation, and thus also of abortion law, extends only to territorial waters. Outside that 12-mile radius it is Dutch law that applies on board a Dutch ship. Thus it is possible to sail to international waters, provide the abortion pill and return all in the same day.

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