The Latest Breaking News from Rebecca Gomperts

Pro-choice campaigners in Malta create lockboxes containing abortion pills

Critics hit out at ‘dire’ situation in the country which has the strictest laws around abortion in western Europe

The Guardian - UK · Apr 27

Texas woman files wrongful death suit saying she was dosed with abortion pills

Woman claims in lawsuit that man impregnated her and dissolved at least 10 shipped abortion pills into her drink

The Guardian - US · Aug 11, 2025

Blurred Posts, Banned Accounts: Abortion Groups Decry Meta 'Suppression'

Blurred posts, downranked searches and deleted accounts: Since President Donald Trump's election, groups sharing information about abortion pills say they have faced a surge in online censorship--hindering their ability to reach women urgently seeking the procedure.

International Business Times · Jan 29, 2025

More Americans are stockpiling abortion pills without pregnancy – study

From September 2021 to April 2023, Aid Access tracked roughly 48,400 advance provision requests for mifepristone

The Guardian - US · Jan 3, 2024

Threats to abortion access drive demand for abortion pills, analysis suggests

Requests for abortion pills from people who were not yet pregnant spiked when patients appeared to perceive threats to abortion access, new research has found.

WEKU · Jan 2, 2024

Group using ‘shield laws’ to provide abortion care in states that ban it

Aid Access ships medication abortion to all 50 states under the protection provided to clinicians serving patients in banned states

The Guardian - US · Jul 23, 2023

The Path to a Safe Abortion Gets Narrower—Again

Women getting help for reproductive care out of state are under siege.

Texas Observer · Apr 19, 2023

Abortion providers scramble as courts restrict pills

Doctors, clinics and telehealth providers across the country are scrambling to figure out how they will continue to provide the most common type of abortion after a federal appeals court imposed new restrictions on a key abortion medication

The Independent UK · Apr 13, 2023

Where abortion is illegal, this doctor finds a way. Now that includes the US

AMSTERDAM — It was nearly three decades ago, as a young medical trainee in West Africa, that Rebecca Gomperts witnessed scenes that would set in motion her life's work. Gruesome hemorrhages, perforated wombs, bloodied young women gasping out their lives: all the aftermath of botched illegal abortions.

Los Angeles Times · Apr 6, 2023

‘It’s a war’: the doctor who wants Americans to get abortion pills before it’s too late

Rebecca Gomperts has found innovative ways to circumvent abortion restrictions worldwide – and a US ruling could make her work even more urgent

The Guardian - US · Feb 20, 2023