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Anti-abortion governments and private entities are already using cutting-edge digital technologies to surveil women’s search history, location data, messages, online purchases and social media activities by using geofencing, keyword warrants, big data and more.
“Every aspect of pregnant people’s digital lives will be put under the microscope, examined for any hints that they sought (successfully or otherwise) to end their pregnancy.”
A prophetic short story written in 1981 suggests what might happen in our immediate future, should the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.
Conspicuously absent from the talking points promulgated by abortion opponents is what happens to girls and women who are forced to proceed with unwanted pregnancies. And what becomes of those children—the unaborted? Does being unwanted “cause” people to become criminals? No. But people navigate life with the tools they have. When trouble mounts for those kids, sweeping them into the school to prison pipeline, it is often the conservative, pro-life camp, who lead the charge to “lock them up and throw away the key.”
Where additional supports are absent, the trajectories of unwanted children should be of concern to us all, regardless of religious or political affiliation.
From Mexico to Benin to Colombia, feminists around the globe have recent experience fighting against anti-abortion efforts and winning. They shared five lessons from the frontlines of the global fight for bodily autonomy and reproductive rights that can help the U.S. prepare to fight for legal and accessible abortion.
The U.S. Constitution is a sparse 4,400 words. One of the words that does not show up among the Constitution’s 4,400 words is the word privacy.
Stomping on the right to privacy won’t just impact abortion rights. It could have long reaching impacts on keeping the government outside of heretofore private spheres like marriage, sex and our bodies.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | MAY 26, 2022 On the Issues with Michele Goodwin is a popular, issues and policy-focused podcast featuring feminist analysis, insightful conversations and exciting guests. This is the first podcast from Ms. magazine, a legacy feminist publication. In each bi-weekly episode, host Dr. Michele Goodwin and special guests will tackle the most compelling issues of […]
A new film about self-managed abortion with pills explains how people in the U.S. are finding abortion pills online and using them safely on their own. Accessible, informative and engaging, ‘Abortion: Add to Cart’ provides a roadmap for how people can have safe abortions post-Roe—even in states that ban abortion.
Have a topic you’d like us to delve into, a guest recommendation, or just want to say hi? Drop us a line at ontheissues@msmagazine.com. Background Reading: Explore Ms. and the Center for Reproductive Rights’ #BeyondRoe project, an array of essays, audio and video content, including: The Right to Reproductive Autonomy: A 14th Amendment Guarantee, Lourdes Rivera U.S. […]
Hostile state or federal laws that ban or restrict abortion and criminalize pregnancy outcomes could have yet another devastating impact: threatening eligibility for legal immigration status and undermining efforts to create more equitable and humane immigration laws.
The politics of immigration and the politics of choice will continue to collide as extreme lawmakers cynically trade the reproductive health of immigrant and non-citizen women for political gain.
The Catholic Church has been the principal religious opponent to advances in birth control and abortion rights and access. But to achieve its goals, it needed allies in its long-term campaign of resistance. It took some time, but they found them.
How conservative Christianity has been systematically waging a half-century war on Roe v. Wade will be the stuff of books and graduate theses. Here are some of the major themes that that they will contain.