HerVoice

HerVoice is a cross-border funding and settlement prototype designed to support access to abortion care in Europe while protecting patient privacy.

Across Europe, abortion access remains highly unequal. Many women are forced to travel across borders to reach safe and legal care, particularly when their home country imposes strong legal or practical restrictions. In those situations, funding is often the weakest link: support organizations make informal promises, clinics face uncertainty about whether payment will arrive, and patients navigate fragmented systems at their most vulnerable moment. HerVoice addresses that financial and operational gap.

The project connects three actors in one calm digital flow: the patient, the clinic, and the funder.

The patient browses trusted clinics, selects an available appointment slot, and submits only the minimum identity information needed for later verification.

The clinic manages availability and confirms that the person presenting for care matches the protected reservation.

The funder reviews pending cases and commits funds transparently turning a funding promise into a real, verifiable on-chain commitment via XRPL escrow.

Privacy is the core design principle. No patient identity or medical record is ever written to the blockchain. Sensitive fields such as name, date of birth, and insurance number remain entirely off-chain. The backend converts identity input into a cryptographic patient hash. Only that hash travels with the funding flow, allowing the system to match a patient to a funded reservation at verification time without exposing any personally identifiable information. The MVP flow works as follows: A clinic creates available slots. A patient selects a clinic and slot, and the backend generates a pseudonymous case linked to a patient hash. A funder reviews open reservations and locks support funds via XRPL escrow. When the patient arrives, clinic staff re-enter the patient's identifying information. The backend recomputes the hash, compares it against active funded cases, and if a match is found triggers escrow release directly to the clinic wallet. The result is verifiable, auditable, and privacy-preserving: sensitive data stays off-chain, while transparent commitment and settlement happen on-chain.

HerVoice is inspired by cross-border reproductive healthcare support initiatives such as My Voice, My Choice. Its purpose is not to place care itself on-chain, but to use blockchain where it is genuinely useful reducing trust friction between parties who may not know each other directly.

The current alternatives are fragile. Clinics carry financial risk. Support organizations manage complex manual records. Patients often don't know whether promised support is truly secured. HerVoice replaces that uncertainty with a transparent, automated funding and release mechanism that reduces friction for everyone in the flow.

Beyond this use case, the same architecture applies to other trust-sensitive support flows: transport and accommodation funding, NGO reimbursement, mental health access, and other cross-border care scenarios. A future production version could integrate DID and Verifiable Credentials to restrict participation to approved clinics and accredited organizations strengthening trust and compliance without compromising patient privacy.

HerVoice is both a practical MVP and a credible foundation for privacy-first support infrastructure built on XRPL. It demonstrates that blockchain technology can serve real, human-centered coordination at a moment when reliable, discreet support matters most. Please find our pitch slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DbOgfx4fapBnZnW_Om2uAFAEVEbhvbvp/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103618046287443968894&rtpof=true&sd=true