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Seeking an abortion? Better watch your digital footprint.

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4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. This means that citizens seeking or providing abortions are going to need to be extra vigilent about their digital footprint to avoid prosecution. Journalist Lil Kalish (@lil_kalish) explains. Read Lil’s story: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/meet-abortion-bans-new-best-friend-your-phone/ Today’s episode was produced and engineered by Jon Ehrens and hosted by Adam Clark Estes. Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's Rico Daley, I'm Adam Clark Estes.

0:40.4

Last week's leak of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade signals huge shifts

0:45.6

in abortion law across the U.S.

0:48.3

And while states have long been pushing the boundaries of this precedent, the end of

0:51.8

row would almost certainly ramp up the criminalization of abortions.

0:56.7

So for those who will be seeking abortions in the future, more precautions will need

1:01.4

to be taken.

1:02.8

Never bring your phone to a clinic.

1:04.7

If you need a phone, get a burner device.

1:07.7

That's low-calish.

1:09.3

They wrote a story earlier this year for Mother Jones about all the ways personal data

1:13.6

and digital forensics have been and will be used to punish those who seek out abortions,

1:19.6

as well as the doctors who provide them.

1:21.6

If you're going to search about how to get an abortion or to self-manage an abortion

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