Safe Access: Abortion Clinic in Dortmund

In November 2022, Dutch doctor Gabie Raven opened an abortion clinic in Dortmund. She already runs two such clinics in the Netherlands. She chose her new location because many German women used to travel to her clinic in Roermond, close to the German-Dutch border, to undergo the procedure – which is much more costly, as it is not covered by German health insurance programmes. In Dortmund, receiving hate mail and threatening phone calls is part of her daily life at work. Sometimes, anti-abortionists travel to the city to protest in front of the clinic. However, for Gabie, abortion is simply part of reproductive health. This is why her team takes care of questions surrounding contraception, too, informing their patiens about intrauterine devices, vasectomies, etc. Some of her patients were refused to have an abortion by their gynecologist. In Gabie‘s clinic, her and her team cares for these women, too.

Noemi Ehrat