In Anti Abortion States, Women's Smart Phones Will be Inspected

I predicted on this blog some years back women's computers and phones would be inspected by law enforcement.  Some scoffed. Today, this is being discussed as a method to track women, abortion medicines and clinics. The only question remaining is whether law enforcement will have any restrictions on whose and what phones it will have access to. Will law enforcement have the right to inspect any woman's phone at any time? Those who advocate forced births want to track every woman is pregnant or is suspected of being pregnant. 

I have read that already, women are using a friend's computer or phone to inquire about abortion medicine or abortions themselves. The word is out on the street of this terrible invasion of privacy.

For decades, forced birth people have argued Roe was a wrong decision because it was based on privacy. Yet, there is no better issue to base the right to abortion upon. If a woman does not have privacy about her body whatever and where-ever does she have privacy? 

In the perfect world of forced birth politics, every pregnant woman would be in the public record. Women who did not know they are pregnant might not be believed. Once the pregnancy is confirmed, law enforcement would place monitoring equipment on her devices so the red flag would go up immediately if she conversed with a site known to provide abortion literature, equipment and medicines. There would be enough law enforcement, in this perfect world, to call out immediately women who have sought out help from an evil firm or clinic. 

Of course, all this will require larger law enforcement staffs. We have discussed the past conservative Republican anti growth in government. To work, there must be no effective work around for women. During prohibition, lots of beer and other beverages were produced and sold. The Al Capones of the world simply found a way around the laws. 

Whatever lies ahead will be a challenge for women. It will also be a challenge to the forced birth movement.

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