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Abortion and the Law in the US

Resources about the history and present day of legal issues related to abortion in the United States

Privacy Post-Roe

The right to abortion enshrined in Roe v. Wade was based on the right to privacy, which is not enumerated in the Constitution, but instead was interpreted to be "penumbral," or implied, by several Amendments to the US Constitution, including the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The right to privacy on which Roe was founded had been previously asserted by the Supreme Court in Griswold v. Connecticut, which granted married couples the right to use contraception. In the post-Roe landscape, the right to privacy is unclear.

In the digital realm, a variety of security threats now face abortion patients and their supporters. The Digital Defense Fund and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have released guides (linked below) to help people keep their information private.

Keep your data secure

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