Find Your Abortion Project

Are you looking for a safe option to end your pregnancy?
This online tool helps you navigate the next steps of accessing safe abortion in your country.

Orange: Abortion illegal and Misoprostol is easily available.
Purple: Abortion is legal
Pink: Abortion illegal and Misoprostol is not registered or very hard to get. Go to www.womenonweb.org to get abortionpills.

About this project 

In 1999, Women on Waves started as one of the first online databases gathering country by country information on abortion laws, access and pills. Since then a number of valuable databases came along, such as “The World’s Abortion Laws” by the Center for Reproductive Rights or the “Global Abortion Policies Database” by the World Health Organization. 

In 2022, Women on Waves teamed up with Women on Web to work on a systematic update and relaunch of the database. This work was generously funded by the UKRI, through the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) New Investigator Grant, and carried out in collaboration with the Department of Geography at the University of Exeter, UK

The goal today remains the same: To provide a person who has an unwanted pregnancy with useful, practical and easy to understand information on abortion access, laws and policies in their country. Each country profile reflects the legal landscape of abortion while also acknowledging the fact that there are many more factors that influence the actual availability and accessibility of abortion care. 

Women on Waves and Women on Web are taking a feminist and pragmatic stance aiming to support women and pregnant people all over the world to access their fundamental right to healthcare. Our general work is centered around telemedical abortion care. While this directory provides information beyond that, you’ll find that it has a focus on abortion with pills nevertheless.

Do you have any questions about the information you see? 

Our FAQ-page will help you out with more detailed explanations.

Want to join this project?

Find Your Abortion Project is an ongoing and collaborative project that relies on your contributions and corrections to thrive. Did you get scammed looking for abortion pills? Do you know a friendly feminist organization that helped you? Or are you an abortion activist, doctor or part of an organization? Please share and fill out the questionnaire in English, French, Spanish or Arabic or contact us here

If you have any urgent questions regarding a pregnancy or when using abortion pills, please contact the Women on Web Helpdesk at info@womenonweb.org

Our Methodology

Each country profile begins with displaying the legal landscape of abortion: The laws and policies, such as the legal grounds for abortion and the registration status of abortion pills. The other part of a country profile is based on community contributions and aims to reflect the actual reality of abortion care in the country, as well as tips for abortion access, useful contacts and resources to access safe abortion. 

The country’s abortion laws and policies, the drug registration status of the abortion pills Mifepristone and Misoprostol (as registered by the country’s pharmaceutical authority), as well as any regulations around the distribution of abortion pills were collected through an initial desk research. Whenever available, the following sources were used:

You will find a specific list of sources used per country on each country’s profile at the bottom of the page. Whenever there was conflicting information between sources we consulted as a team and decided on a case by case basis, balancing accuracy (documented proof through original legal documents) with pragmatic considerations of providing as much useful information as possible. If you have a question about a specific piece of information, do not hesitate to reach out

Brand names of the abortion pills Mifepristone, Misoprostol and Combipacks were listed when local contacts reported their common use (using this questionnaire) and/or if they appeared on:

That means that many, but not all brand names that are listed in the directory are officially registered in the respective country. This is in the hope of capturing the actual reality of abortion pill distribution. 

The community comments, the information on local organizations and resources and cost of abortion pills consist of contributions from local contacts answering a set of questions about the availability of abortion pills and services (using this questionnaire) or as they appear on:

Starting from the relaunch in 2022/23 there will be a systematic update every 5 years, reviewing all data collected on this database, if possible. In the meantime there will be smaller changes and additions carried out every three months. On each country profile you’ll find a “last updated on” -date at the right corner of the page. 

The data included in this database is collected to our best knowledge. However, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information listed.  If you see an error, outdated information, have a question or have information to add, please write an email to community@womenonweb.org or fill out the full questionnaire in English, French, Spanish or Arabic

This is a collective and ongoing project and we appreciate every person joining our efforts to spread accurate and practical information on abortion care.