With Roe in doubt in the US, some fear tech surveillance of pregnancy


Jones, right, 26, participates in a pro-choice rally in Baltimore, on May 14, 2022. Jones consulted the Internet on her cellphone for information and advice before having an abortion during her junior year in college. In a post-Roe world, if the Supreme Court soon reverses the 1973 decision that legalized abortion, as a draft opinion suggests it may, pregnancies could be surveilled and the data shared with police or sold to vigilantes. — AP

PHILADELPHIA: When Chandler Jones realised she was pregnant during her junior year of college, she turned to a trusted source for information and advice.

Her cellphone.

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