Abortion In The Surveillance State

While the overturn of #roevwade is awful, the existence of abortion pills gives women access they didn't have before #roevwade. While that's an improvement, some things have gotten worse since then like digital surveillance, as Freddy DeBoer points out: "We have the existence of a digital surveillance that was perviously unheard of. We also have, since 9/11, a legal apparatus that has eroded time and time again any right to privacy. And I absolutely believe that the Texas state government, the Utah state government, the Mississippi state government etc will go to enormous lengths to track people's movements... If you ever look at the things that Edward Snowden revealed, the amount of data they can scrape from you from your metadata they can track where you are all the time. We can't just become complacent." Delete your period apps and write down your period in a physical notebook.

Freddie DeBoer is a writer and academic and the author of The Cult of Smart. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Politico. Find his work at

Molly Shah () is a contributing writer to The Real News and social media consultant based in Berlin. Prior to moving to Germany Molly was an activist, teacher and lawyer in Louisville, Kentucky.

Amy Merrill is an artist and activist, and cofounder and digital director of abortion pill access campaign Plan C at plancpills.org (). She also leads a web design and communications studio Eyes Open at eyesopendesign.com. Amy has a background in nonprofit management and social impact startups, choosing complex issues like voluntourism, human trafficking and gender inequality which ultimately led her to focus on reproductive health equity and selfdetermination, and to cofounding Plan C.

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