Women on Web

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{{short description|Canadian online abortion help service}}

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Women on Web (WoW) is a Canadian non-profit organization that facilitates online access to medical abortion, known for its international online abortion{{Cite news|date=2020-05-29|title=About Women on Web|journal=Daily Telegraph|language=en-GB|url=https://www.womenonweb.org/en/page/521/about-women-on-web|access-date=2020-05-29|issn=0307-1235}} service accessible in multiple countries.{{cite magazine |last=Widdicombe |first=Lizzie |date=11 November 2021 |title=What Does an At-Home Abortion Look Like? |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-does-an-at-home-abortion-look-like |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=13 August 2022}}{{cite news |last=Adams |first=Patrick |date=17 May 2022 |title=Why Poland's restrictive abortion laws could be problematic for Ukrainian refugees |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/05/17/994654590/u-n-and-advocates-raise-concerns-of-abortion-access-for-ukrainian-refugees-in-po?t=1660405968923 |work=NPR |access-date=13 August 2022}} The organization was founded by Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, a Dutch physician, in 2005.{{Cite news|url=http://digg.com/2016/women-on-web|title=The Website Providing Abortion Without Borders|last=Grant|first=Rebecca|access-date=2018-10-21|language=en}}

The Women on Web helpdesk provides information and support in 16 languages, including Arabic, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, and Turkish. Their medical team provides online medical consultations and facilitates the delivery of abortion pills by mail. {{Cite web|title=I need an abortion|url=https://www.womenonweb.org/en/i-need-an-abortion|date=2020-05-29|website=Women on Web|access-date=2020-05-29}}

Self-managed medical abortion is done with mifepristone and misoprostol at home during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.{{Cite journal|date=29 May 2017|title=Abortion|url=https://doi.org/10.1111/jmwh.12634|journal=Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health|volume=62|issue=3|pages=383–384|doi=10.1111/jmwh.12634|pmid=28556579|via=Wiley Online Library|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last1=Gomperts|first1=Rj|last2=Jelinska|first2=K|last3=Davies|first3=S|last4=Gemzell-Danielsson|first4=K|last5=Kleiverda|first5=G|date=2008-08-01|title=Using telemedicine for termination of pregnancy with mifepristone and misoprostol in settings where there is no access to safe services|journal=BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology|language=en|volume=115|issue=9|pages=1171–1178|doi=10.1111/j.1471-0528.2008.01787.x|issn=1471-0528|pmid=18637010|doi-access=free}} Mifepristone and misoprostol terminate the pregnancy by inducing an abortion that resembles a miscarriage with a 97% efficacy rate during the first 60 days of pregnancy.{{cite journal | vauthors = Chen MJ, Creinin MD | title = Mifepristone With Buccal Misoprostol for Medical Abortion: A Systematic Review | journal = Obstetrics and Gynecology | volume = 126 | issue = 1 | pages = 12–21 | date = July 2015 | pmid = 26241251 | doi = 10.1097/AOG.0000000000000897 | s2cid = 20800109 | url = http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2pw521h5 }} A 2008 study published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology found that women are capable of self‐administering mifepristone and misoprostol at home without a doctor physically visiting them, provided proper information and instructions are given.