There are many humanitarian missions across the globe hoping to make a difference by providing aid to those in need whether it be for those deprived of food, water, protection, or basic human rights such as abortion. Abortion has long been a practice sought by those women whose untimely, unplanned, or accidental pregnancy negatively impacts their lives to the extent of irreparable destruction. Abortion is in earnest a personal decision and one that no matter what religious propriety or bureaucratic ethics may suggest, sometimes it must be done for the survival of the female involved. Carrie Lambert-Beatty’s “Twelve Miles: Boundaries of New Art/Activism” takes a novel approach to chronicling the Women on Waves project founded by Dutch Physician Rebecca Gomperts. The activism sect of contemporary art has become a wide-ranging genre in the modern day and Lambert-Beatty does a wonderful job of explaining and establishing the relationship between Projects like Women on Waves and activism art. This project is a nongovernmental organization that uses boats with gynecology clinics attached or mounted and staffed with certified medical personal to not only provide abortion services but education, clinical checkups, and things like prophylactics for women in countries where there is either sparse gynecological care or banned abortions. Lambert-Beatty illuminates the characteristics and processes of this project that fit perfectly into category of activism. She also makes a point in saying how it is no coincidence and that this deliberate connection shows how the two balance each other while as she says that Women on Waves, “….is art nor is it not-art.” This phrase captures the essence of this bridge between Gompert’s project and art activism.