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Missouri lawmaker proposes registry of pregnant women ‘at risk’ for abortions

The Save MO Babies Act is the latest in a series of anti-abortion efforts to expand government tracking of pregnant women and abortion patients. Project 2025, the famous conservative policy playbook, suggested that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expand its “surveillance” to force states to turn over data on “exactly how many abortions … Read more

Apps can be weaponized to criminalize those seeking abortion care. Under Trump, it could get worse

Researchers also bring attention to big tech’s business model and how it “facilitates mass surveillance of users seeking reproductive health care.” For example, people are frequently forced to consent to companies having permission to collecting and use their data, or they’re denied access to the platform. Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade with the … Read more

Democrats push to protect the data privacy of people seeking abortions

Data brokers say the data they collect is anonymized. But some researchers have found vulnerabilities in that data that could make it possible to see who has gone to an abortion clinic. The startup Atlas Privacy obtained access to a tool used by the U.S. government and law enforcement agencies that draws on commercially available … Read more

‘This victory is a mandate’: rightwing groups ready with policy proposals for new Trump administration

Abortion access is one area where Trump and the project could differ, though Trump’s plans for abortion have been muddled. The project wants to end federal approval of abortion pills, track abortion data and root out anything that is seen as promoting abortion as healthcare. It doesn’t call for a direct ban on the procedure, … Read more

Trump’s return to White House means abortion rights face new chapter of peril

Project 2025, which was primarily crafted by the influential thinktank the Heritage Foundation but backed by more than 100 conservative groups, includes a laundry list of anti-abortion policies. It suggests rolling back the FDA’s approval of abortion pills, increasing CDC “surveillance” of abortion and pregnancy loss to police ban violations, and stripping federal funding from … Read more

Cecile Richards’ Open Letter to Women: ‘Kamala Harris Gets It’

Nobody sums up how we got here better than Donald Trump. In his own words: “For 54 years, they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it, and I’m proud to have done it.” If he is elected president again, make no mistake: He will sign a national abortion ban. And … Read more

Crisis pregnancy center’s forms give rare insight into anti-abortion practices

The free organizations offer counseling while trying to dissuade women from having an abortion. They promise to protect health data but aren’t bound by federal privacy law. Read more at NBC News  

The Rise of the Right-Wing Tattletale

Mitchell declined to comment for this article. But his work on the Silva case and the bounty law, among other matters, reflects a tactic that conservatives have recently embraced in a range of social battles, including those over abortion, LGBTQ issues, and school curricula. Across the nation, Republican-controlled state legislatures and conservative activists have passed … Read more

Trump and Vance Have Backed States That Want to Surveil Pregnant Women

But Trump and Vance’s Project 2025 agenda would go even further — calling for every abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth, and incidental pregnancy loss from medical treatments like chemo to be reported to the federal government under a Trump administration, tearing away health data privacy protections under HIPAA, and allowing states to surveil patients and doctors, monitor … Read more