2026 has already been a busy year for Women on Web’s Digital Rights Program, which is celebrating its first anniversary! 🥳
From documenting global website censorship, to researching how abortion seekers use ChatGPT, to launching a global resource to keep abortion activists and providers visible and accessible online, we’ve continued working to ensure abortion information and services remain visible and accessible online.
visible and accessible online.
Today’s topics:
1. Report: Global Censorship of WoW
2. New portal: A-Line keeps abortion online
3. Research: abortion seekers usage of AI
New OONI Report: Global Censorship of Women on Web
This year, Women on Web partnered with the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) to publish a new report documenting the global censorship of Women on Web websites and abortion information online.
The report, Abortion Access Denied: Investigating the Global Censorship of Women on Web, analyzes OONI network measurement data collected between November 2025 and April 2026 and documents how WoW’s websites have been censored around the world.
Our prior report with OONI in 2019 documented evidence of website blockages in three countries: Türkiye, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia. The new report documents evidence of growing censorship globally, with blockages found in in Iran, Türkiye, the Philippines, South Korea, Spain, Kuwait, Argentina, Italy, Poland, Kenya, Pakistan, and Georgia.
These findings are supporting strategic litigation and advocacy efforts in multiple countries, including ongoing legal challenges in Türkiye and South Korea and a forthcoming application to the European Court of Human Rights regarding the continued blockage of Women on Web’s website in Spain.
We’re Launching A-Line to Keep Abortion OnlineResearch
In response to the growing and increasingly sophisticated digital threats facing abortion activists and organizations, Women on Web launched The A-Line in partnership with our friends at eQualitie.
The A-Line provides technology solutions, digital resilience strategies, and anti-censorship support to help reproductive justice organizations navigate website blocking, cyberattacks, and the suppression of abortion-related content on search engines and social media platforms.
Through The A-Line, abortion activists and providers facing online threats can access secure hosting infrastructure, website protection, and be-spoke technical solutions. The A-Line also helps organizations restore suspended social media accounts and recover removed content through trusted partnerships.
The project serves as a bridge between the reproductive justice and digital rights communities, helping organizations document censorship, advocate for policy change, and ensure that abortion information remains accessible online.
As a project of Women on Web—and a love letter from our Digital Rights Program to the movement—The A-Line builds on nearly two decades of experience overcoming digital censorship and online suppression while providing abortion information and care worldwide.
Learn more about The A-Line
Artificial Intelligence + Abortion Access Research
Women on Web recently published new research in BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health exploring how abortion seekers are increasingly using AI tools like ChatGPT to access abortion information and services online.
👆 ChatGPT has emerged as a new referral channel to Women on Web. In 2024, the organization received only 431 clicks to their site from the chatbot. In 2025, those numbers increased dramatically to 8,623 clicks.
🌍 56.70% of all clicks came from just 10 countries, with the majority of those countries maintaining highly restrictive abortion laws. The Philippines, Peru, Brazil, Poland, and Mexico were the top five countries for clicks.
💊 The Philippines, Brazil, the United States, and Indonesia showed higher abortion pill request rates from ChatGPT referrals than from other traffic sources, suggesting that users in these countries may be intentionally turning to AI tools to seek abortion information and services.
Women on Web is encouraged to see that care seekers in restrictive settings are accessing abortion through chatbots. However, we have seen new digital pathways open up and then later contract (such as various forms of social media), and there are growing concerns about privacy and threats of censorship in AI chatbot responses.
Moving forward, Women on Web will continue researching care seekers’ experiences using AI tools before, during, and after abortion care to better understand how people navigate digital health information systems while learning and adapting to this new AI-driven ecosystem.
Read the full article here: Artificial intelligence pathways to abortion care: a regional analysis of ChatGPT referrals to Women on Web Free
What’s Next?
Over the coming months, Women on Web will continue expanding The A-Line, building the global knowledge base on AI and abortion access, and launching a new censorship-resistant Women on Web app with ASL19.
If you’re a technologist, researcher, or organization interested in collaborating, we’d love to connect through The A-Line- drop us a line at a-line@womenonweb.org
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