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by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorOctober 8, 2007Valleta, Malta (LifeNews.com) -- The head of the pro-abortion group that operates the abortion ship that has targeted the people of Ireland, Portugal and Poland is heading to Malta, one of the few European nations that makes abortion illegal. Rebecca Gomperts will visit the island nation on Wednesday to deliver a speech advocating legal abortions.Gomperts is the director of Women on Waves, the pro-abortion organization that has taken its converted tugboat to international waters outside pro-life nations to give women the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug.Her speech, “The Right to a Dignified Motherhood: The Crucial...

Portugal has refused permission for a Dutch "abortion ship" to enter its territorial waters. The government said the group operating the trip planned to hand out pills to end early unwanted pregnancies - a procedure prohibited in Portugal. In Portugal, abortions are only allowed in exceptional circumstances, such as when the mother's life is at risk. The ship has stopped in other Catholic countries with restrictive abortion laws such as Poland and Ireland. Botched abortions The vessel leased by pro-choice group Women on Waves is staffed by a doctor, a gynaecologist and a nurse. To circumvent Portuguese law, volunteers had...

DEN HELDER, The Netherlands (Reuters) - A Dutch floating abortion clinic set sail for Portugal Monday despite an attempt by the Dutch government to restrict its activities and after visits to Ireland and Poland stoked controversy. In Portugal abortion is only possible when the mother's life is in danger and in few other specific cases, said Women on Waves, which leases ships to carry its clinic on campaigns. The clinic, which offers the abortion pill in international waters to women in countries where they are illegal or more restricted than the Netherlands, has a permit to provide the pill to...

Amsterdam, Netherlands (LifeNews.com) -- A Dutch court on Wednesday upheld a governmental decision requiring the "abortion ship" Langenort, a converted tugboat, to stay within a 16 mile radius outside of Amsterdam. Operators of the Langenort want to resume travels to countries where abortion is illegal to perform abortions in international waters.

The failed Dutch invasion of Poland By Michael S. Rose Few will find this surprising, but not everyone is applauding Poland’s recent admission to the European Union, which will take effect next year. One commentator posed this provocative question on a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Sunday morning religion program: what will the Dutch do when thousands of Poles, “every one of them more Catholic than the Pope,” reach the shores of the promised lowlands looking for work? The question was ironic given that just a few days later the Dutch invaded the shores of Poland. Allow me to explain. For...

Pro-Aborts involved with Dutch Abortion Ship Boast of First Abortions Performed At SeaWARSAW, July 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A feminist group involved with the abortion boat which is taking Polish women into international waters, is boasting that "Women on Waves successfully performed the first abortion in international waters off the coast of Poland." The Feminist Majority Foundation, which gave legal counsel to the crew of the abortion ship, has confirmed what the crew of the ship would not confirm, that they have committed abortions. During the boat's first excursion into international waters last Thursday, some 11 Polish women were on...

A ship operated by abortion rights activists left a Polish port Thursday and headed for waters outside the nation's tough anti-abortion jurisdiction, officials said. Capt. Kazimierz Undro said the Langenort sailed in the afternoon for the Baltic Sea carrying a group of Polish women. He said the boat would likely return to port later in the evening. Women on Waves, a pro-choice group from the Netherlands that runs the ship, had said were taking the women out to international waters — out of reach of Polish abortion law, one of Europe's strictest — to offer advice on contraceptives and medical...

Polish authorities have given a $3,000 fine to a visiting boat operated by a Dutch abortion rights group. "The boat [the Langenort] breached procedures for entering the port and did not obey the orders of the port commander," Kazimierz Undro, the commander of Wladyslawowo port said. "I asked it to move to another part of the port where it would be sheltered from a group of people who were hostile to its arrival," he added. Protesters flung red paint and eggs at the ship Dutch ship when it entered the port on Sunday. The Polish feminist who organised the boat's...

Bishop described the boat crew's objective as "killing Poles."WLADYSLAWOWO, June 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Dutch abortion ship, the brain child of abortion-activist Rebecca Gomperts, was to dock in Poland Saturday but was kept offshore by a storm. When the ship arrived Sunday it was met with a hail of eggs, red paint and shouts condemning the abortionists aboard as "murderers" and "Gestapo". Polish customs officials searched the boat looking for abortion pills which are illegal in Poland. The large demonstration of some 200 people, which included All-Poland Youth and Catholic League of Polish Families, dwarfed the few people who...

Wladyslawowo, Poland — After initially being prevented from docking in Poland, the Dutch-based abortion ship arrived in the eastern European country on Sunday and was greeted by a gathering of protesters. Dozens of people, many shouting “murderers” and waving Polish flags, met the Langenort as it pulled into the Baltic Sea port of Wladyslawowo. The Langenort, a converted tugboat, has a makeshift operating room where abortions are performed and pro-life groups say to perform abortions there is dangerous to women. Although crew members don’t intend to perform surgical abortions on this trip, they declined to say whether they intended to...

Customs officials have boarded a ship operated by a Dutch abortion rights group to search for contraceptive pills that are illegal in Poland. However, a spokeswoman for state prosecutors, Malgorzata Wilkosz-Sliwa, said the Langenort's crew would not be in breach of Polish abortion laws so long as any pills remained on the ship. "If no-one tries to distribute [the pills], then there is no crime," she said. Crew member Jeanette Kruseman admits RU-486 pills are on board, but under a seal that will not be broken while the ship remains in Poland. The ship arrived at the Baltic Sea port...

Abortion ship denied entry to Poland WLADYSLAWOWO, Poland (Reuters) - The crew of a Dutch floating abortion clinic have accused Poland of denying their ship entry into a port in the Roman Catholic country which has strict laws on terminating pregnancy. The ship, which offers abortions in international waters to women in countries where the procedure is more restricted than in the Netherlands, was forced to anchor offshore after being turned away from Wladyslawowo on Friday. Women on Waves head Rebecca Gomperts and local abortion-rights activists said they were told the port was closed due to bad weather. But while...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch floating abortion clinic was due to dock in Poland on Friday to offer onboard abortions in a challenge to the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country's strict laws. The Women on Waves Foundation, which offers abortions in international waters to women in countries where they are illegal or more restricted than in the Netherlands, said the ship would dock at Wladyslawowo. It was sure to face protests in a country where the Polish Pope John Paul, head of the world's billion Catholics and staunchly opposed to contraception, abortion and divorce, is a local hero. "This is pure...