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Gomperts, Rebecca, 1966-

LC control no.n 99049436
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LC classificationPT5881.17.O47
Personal name headingGomperts, Rebecca, 1966-
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See alsoFounded corporate body of person: Women on Waves (Organization)
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LocatedAmsterdam (Netherlands)
Birth date1966
Field of activityReproductive health services
Profession or occupationPhysicians Political activists Authors
Found inZeedrift, c1999: t.p. (Rebecca Gomperts) p. 4 cover (b. 1966; physician)
Women on Waves website, viewed January 23, 2017: Who are we? (Rebecca Gomperts, MD, MPP, PhD; founder and director of Women on Waves and Women on Web; studied medicine and visual arts in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; in 2011 completed a Masters in Public Policy at Princeton University and in 2014 completed her PhD at Karolinska Institutet; wrote a novel, "Zeedrift", and published articles and essays)
   <https://www.womenonwaves.org/en/page/2896/rebecca-gomperts--md--mpp--phd>
Wikipedia, viewed January 23, 2017 (Women on Waves (WoW); a Dutch pro-choice non-profit organization created in 1999 by Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts, in order to bring reproductive health services, particularly non-surgical abortion services, to women in countries with restrictive abortion laws; Rebecca Gomperts is a physician, artist and women's rights activist; born in 1966; grew up in the harbor town of Vlissingen, Netherlands; moved to Amsterdam in the 1980s where she studied art and medicine)
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