Mission

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Empower women, Prevent unwanted pregnancy, Safe abortion, Reduce suffering, Liberalize the law

Empower women to make conscious, well informed decisions about family planning.

Prevent unwanted pregnancy.


Ensure safe and legal abortion.


Reduce unnecessary physical or psychological suffering and deaths from illegal abortions.

Catalyze support for liberalization of abortion laws worldwide.

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  • Portugal 2004

    The Women on Waves ship Borndiep stayed in international waters, 12 miles from Figueira da Foz a small holliday town in Portugal, from August 28 till September 9, 2004. The ship was being blocked to enter Portuguese national waters by two Portuguese war ships.

  • MS Women of the Year

    Rebecca Gomperts, founder of Women on Waves received the "Women of the year 2001" award from MS. Magazine in the US for Hatching a heroic and ingenious plan to provide reproductive health services around the world.

  • Services offered by Women on Waves

    • Information about and provision of contraceptives
    • Information about and provision of emergency contraceptives
    • Pregnancy testing
    • Non-directive pregnancy counselling, aimed at making an optimal informed personal decision
    • Medical abortions if your period is 16 days too late
    • Counselling on sexually transmitted diseases

  • Website Colophon

    Many helped us creating and maintaining this site. Here are a few of the names with apologies to the friends we forgot to mention...