Rebecca Gomperts

Today in the United States, more than 65% of abortions are medication abortions, and that's just within the formal healthcare system.

One reason so many American women have been able to access abortion pills in the last few years is because of the work of Dutch physician, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts.

Dr. Gompertz started her career in Amsterdam as an abortion doctor and joined Greenpeace, helping women around the world get abortion care.

And through her work with Women on Waves and Women on Web, she provided abortion pills to women in countries with strict abortion laws.

And one of the problems is that that is not researched, that women that have very heavy bleeding, for example, that often they don't get the right test to find out what is the reason for it.

And only by talking about it, it's the way to change that.

Dr. Rebecca Gomperts is a Dutch physician and senior researcher at Leiden Medical University, where she recently conducted a trial to evaluate if the abortion drug mifepristone could be used as a weekly contraceptive.

You can watch Dr. Gompertz in our PBS NewsHour segment on how abortion politics is blocking progress in women's health care.