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VESSEL

By Diana WHITTEN

CINEPHIL - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2014

Vessel tells the story of Rebecca Gomperts, a young idealist doctor, who, after being horrified by the realities caused by anti-abortion laws around the world, felt compelled to challenge the issue and answer the calling by providing abortions onboard a ship in offshore waters.

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- SPANISH, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 88 mn
- Director(s)
- Diana WHITTEN
- Producer(s)
- Diana WHITTEN, Mitchell BLOCK
- Synopsis
- Vessel tells the story of Rebecca Gomperts, a young idealist doctor, who, after being horrified by the realities caused by anti-abortion laws around the world, felt compelled to challenge the issue and answer the calling by providing abortions onboard a ship in offshore waters. She created Women on Waves, an underground global movement network of emboldened, informed activists. What began as a flawed spectacle, a media frenzy, faced with governmental, religious, and military blockade, soon after became a refined mission, followed by the revelation that new technologies can be used to bypass law, with women being trained to safely give themselves abortions, using WHO-sanctioned protocols with pills.