We want Texans to know their rights

pton_xd

"Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion." These people really have nothing better to do?

Trasmatta

It's no longer safe to even use a period tracking app in many US states now. The women I know are all cautioning each other to go back to pen and paper, and ditch anything app based.

throwawalien

wild that it took abortion for people to notice. the same cameras have been feeding ICE lookups across 5,000+ towns, quietly, for the last couple years

belviewreview

One reason the government surveillance is important is I've read there is a growing movement among the right-to-lifers to hold women who abort criminally liable.

jmyeet

Let's contrast and compare what American conservative politicians are doing [1][2][3] with [4]: > The Lebensborn program focused on attracting unmarried, pregnant “Aryan” women. At the time, there were strong pressures against single motherhood in German society. The program offered the mothers financial support and adoption services. It also provided a series of private maternity homes away from the judgemental eyes of family members, friends, and acquaintances. In this way, Himmler hoped to discourage abortions. The Nazi regime strengthened existing German laws that prohibited most abortions. At the same time, though, the regime was operating “hereditary health” courts that ordered abortions and sterilizations for those whom Nazi authorities decided were not of “good racial stock.” Despite the regime's increased penalties for seeking abortions, Himmler estimated there were at least 100,000 “biologically valuable” pregnancies terminated in Germany every year. That's what the abortion debate has always been about. Long gone is the era when tech was seen as maverick and revolutionary, when Steve Jobs evoked 1984 and when Google pulled out of China because they didn't want to be complicit with state censorship. Now tech is the tool of surveillance, the police state and targeting journalists with missiles. It's hard not to view the future as anything but dystopian. [1]: https://www.wdbj7.com/2026/03/03/republican-lawmakers-this-s... [2]: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5217297-republican-sta... [3]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/texas-... [4]: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lebensborn...

zkmon

This thread should be flagged. Because there will be two opposing views to this with unending discussion. The one that goes by Texas laws favoring the baby over the mother, and the one that goes with favoring the mother over the baby.

stackghost

If rights can be capriciously and arbitrarily curtailed by armed agents of the state while effete judges yeet sternly-worded letters into the void, then those "rights" are worth about as much as the USA's signature on an international treaty. Which is to say, nothing.

belZaah

We had a lady down here in Estonia working for police. She used their extensive databases for non-work related reasons and got, very publicly, fired. She decided to appeal and lost. Through all levels of court up to the EU one. So for years, there would be a newspaper headline “remember that person who invaded your privacy? Still guilty”. Could not wish for a more impactful public execution.