Talk:Women on Waves

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I remember hearing about this in the news. It is an appropriate topic for a Wkipedia article. There are no 3rd party sources referenced. There should be some articles in The New York Times, CNN, NewsWeek, TIME Magazine and the like. And there should be some more information about both government and private groups which have opposed this group.DismasMama 05:16, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

There is no mention of her participation with Joep van Lieshout for the 2001 Venice Biennale. 

Women on web
Very strong similarities suggest that Women on Waves and Women on Web are the same organization.Try to find info on the issue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4 Women on Web (talk • contribs) 11:25, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Uncritical
The article looks almost promotional, as if this was a McDonald's boat or something. It is assumed that every thinking person either supports or implicity agrees with the seafaring abortionists. It would be just as shocking if we had Rapists on Wanves or Pedophiles on Waves. ADM (talk) 22:01, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Hahaha, wow. Just pathetic. You anti-abortionists must just love women being subjugated at ridiculous extremes if you feel the need to somehow link pro-choice and abortion related things to rape and pedophilia. Run along, the rest of us here in reality understand the issues and don't think up such ridiculous fallacies of arguments against abortion. 203.171.197.37 (talk) 03:59, 30 December 2009 (UTC) Sutter Cane

Wording: "pro-choice" or "pro-abortion"
I'm looking for opinions from other editors about the wording in the opening sentence. I believe that "pro-choice" is the more common and accepted term, while User:CrossoverManiac prefers "pro-abortion." Rather than getting into a big edit war over this, I'm looking for input from other editors. Joyous! | Talk 03:44, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

CrossoverManiac (talk) 04:00, 7 January 2010 (UTC)I'm copy-pasting the following message I gave to Joyous!: Terms like 'pro-life', 'pro-choice', 'anti-choice', 'pro-death' are nothing but 1984-style Newspeak designed to either invoke a feeling of benevolence for one side (pro-choice and pro-life) and invoke negative emotions directed at the other (anti-abortion, anti-life, pro-death). The issue is abortion: sides are either pro-abortion and anti-abortion. There are those who are anti-abortion who are pro-death penalty, so are they pro-life? And there are those who are pro-abortion who are against school choice or people choosing to own firearms, so are they pro-choice? The term anti-abortion and pro-abortion are the most accurate terms that can be used for both sides of the debate. Anything else is focus-group driven buzzwords.

Whatever your argument, the wikipedia article is entitled pro-choice. If you would like the link to read pro-abortion, then please take it up with wikipedia to change the "pro-choice" article to be renamed "pro-abortion." The goal here is internal consistency with the already established Wiki standards. --Belleiseult (talk) 20:17, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Women on Waves uses the term abortion. The article is about Women on Waves. Therefore the article should use the term abortion. AnaSoc (talk) 23:23, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

2018 time to update
Lots has happened since the last edits on this article. I plan to add material from three peer-reviewed journal articles and maybe some updated news sources. Irish voters decided to legalize abortion in June, 2018, but it's too soon to tell how much influence Women on Waves had on this. I suspect that their influence was huge, as WoW's explicit purpose in traveling to Ireland was to "catalyze" the movement to liberalize abortion laws. It would be helpful to include this information, if we can find it.AnaSoc (talk) 20:34, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: History of Sexuality
For this assignment, we did research into aspects of Women on Waves we feel have been underrepresented on the page, for instance the cultural precedent of overseas gender and sexuality-related work and activism within the Netherlands. We also looked into reception and reviews of "Vessel" as a means of exploring the cultural response to an organization like WoW. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JoePayne6467 (talk • contribs) 20:42, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

— Assignment last updated by Aisnotokay (talk) 01:48, 24 November 2023 (UTC)