Women on Web Philippines Anti-Censorship Page
2025 marked the 20th anniversary of Women on Web facilitating access to abortion pills online! Over the past two decades, our helpdesk has responded to over 1,700,000 emails and facilitated access to abortion pills for over 166,000 care seekers.
Last year, we launched a new strategic plan reflecting our evolution from a physician-led model to a demedicalized service rooted in a collective, movement-based vision of self-managed abortion and trust in people’s agency.
Our work in 2025
🌍 Our service received over 75,000 requests to access abortion pills by mail– twice as many as in 2024!
📈 We supported 71% more abortion seekers than in 2024.
💬 Our help desk responded to over 160,000 emails in 26 languages.
💊 Over 4,000 of these requests came from people requesting abortion pills “just in case”.
📝 We published two scientific articles on abortion care seekers in Kenya and advance provision of abortion pills in Poland.
🌐 We launched our brand new website!
As abortion access increasingly moves online, so do the threats against it.
-More people rely on the internet for abortion information and care than ever before. At the same time, online spaces are becoming more regulated, fragmented and controlled by governments and Big Tech.
-In December 2025, our website was censored in the Philippines — making it the 6th country where Women on Web is blocked, cutting off access to critical abortion information and care. But we refuse to be silenced. Our new website for the Philippines, www.women-on-web.ph, is now live and provides information on safely self-managing abortions.
-In 2025, we also launched our Digital Rights Program to strengthen our anti-censorship work and to build digital resilience across our organization and movement. Through this program, we’re investing in pro-abortion tech, tactics, and cross-movement collaboration to resist repression, defend our rights online, and create safer digital spaces.
What’s next?
Women on Web is already planning for a very full 2026! Some highlights to look out for include:
- A new censorship-resistant mobile app
- Two separate reports with our partners at Privacy International and the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
- Hosting two parallel events during the 70th UN Commission on the Status of Women: (i) Keep Abortion Online: Youth Defending Digital Access and Bodily Autonomy with Youth Coalition (10 March, 8:30–10:00 am, Salvation Army Auditorium), and (ii) A panel with Women’s Link Worldwide on reproductive justice and digital rights (12 March, 12:00–1:30 pm, Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice)
- Speaking at the Tech Abuse Conference in May hosted by UCL’s Gender + Tech initiative
- New research on how abortion care seekers use AI-driven tools throughout their care journeys
- Attending RightsCon Zambia and speaking at two sessions: (i) How to Run a Feminist Helpline: 101 with PurpleCode Collective, Stop Online Harm and Digital Rights Foundation;
- Stop Censoring Abortion: Information Sharing & Advocacy in the Age of Digital Suppression with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- Digital suppression of sexual and reproductive health and rights content: challenges and solutions with the Center for Intimacy Justice and MSI Reproductive Choices
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