{"id":3998,"date":"2026-08-10T14:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:29:06","slug":"rest-assured-the-new-cdc-director-thinks-abortion-surveillance-is-essential-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/rest-assured-the-new-cdc-director-thinks-abortion-surveillance-is-essential-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest assured, the new CDC director thinks \u2018abortion surveillance\u2019 is essential &#8211; opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong>Erica Schwartz\u2019s testimony \u2026 should alarm everyone who believes private medical decisions belong to patients, not politicians,\u201d Mini Timmaraju, the president and CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All, said in a statement. She added that, under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Trump administration<\/a>, \u201cabortion surveillance could be expanded or weaponized to collect more intrusive information, spread disinformation about reproductive health care, and support efforts to investigate or criminalize patients and providers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/aug\/08\/cdc-abortion-surveillance-schwartz-hawley\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cErica Schwartz\u2019s testimony \u2026 should alarm everyone who believes private medical decisions belong to patients, not politicians,\u201d Mini Timmaraju, the president and CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All, said in a statement. She added that, under the Trump administration, \u201cabortion surveillance could be expanded or weaponized to collect more intrusive information, spread disinformation about reproductive &#8230; <a title=\"Rest assured, the new CDC director thinks \u2018abortion surveillance\u2019 is essential &#8211; opinion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/rest-assured-the-new-cdc-director-thinks-abortion-surveillance-is-essential-opinion\/\" aria-label=\"More on Rest assured, the new CDC director thinks \u2018abortion surveillance\u2019 is essential &#8211; opinion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[535,483,128,132],"class_list":["post-3998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion-surveillance","tag-cdc","tag-medical-records-privacy","tag-online-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}