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Why US women seeking abortions are warned

Nine To Noon

English - May 12, 2022 21:05 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
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Women in the United States are being warned against using menstrual tracking apps or even Googling "abortion" in the wake of a leaked opinion which suggests a landmark legal protection could be overturned. Last week an initial draft majority opinion belonging to Justice Samuel Alito was leaked, indicating the Supreme Court had voted to overturn Roe v Wade, the legal precedent guaranteeing American women the right to an abortion. Any decision is not final until it is published, likely to be in June. But it's prompted fears about what such a fundamental legal change would mean - not just in terms of abortion access - but for how technology may come into play. Kathryn speaks to Nikolas Guggenberger is executive director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and Daly Barnett, who's a technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.