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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Women in prison and under court surveillance will suffer under new abortion bans <br></h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">Kate Weisburd - July 5, 2022<br></div>
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state abortion bans snap into effect after the Supreme Court’s decision
in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, one group who will be
most affected seems to be least discussed: women under criminal court
control.</p><p>For these women — the vast majority of whom are poor and
disproportionally Black or Latina — state surveillance and control of
their bodies are <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.justsecurity.org%2F71509%2Fthe-new-jane-crow-womens-mass-incarceration%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658378972739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=nUXZkKMDxZpFUrnVHBjfKPENLfKwNbEqggnzc8WS%2Bj8%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">not new</a>. Women in prison and jails are often <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.californialawreview.org%2Fprint%2F3punishing-pregnancy-race-incarceration-and-the-shackling-of-pregnant-prisoners%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658378972739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=tH%2FsSrLPD6EGCUuPTZZE6Qa69pVj3huqUC08lDpKLRI%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">shackled</a> during childbirth, separated from their children, <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu%2Fnulr%2Fvol116%2Fiss4%2F1%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658378972739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=n2dKgz9aUK6hN3yPJ4Gdb04C1A7KJW3EkxLJiY%2FUU%2Bk%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">violently searched</a> and denied basic medical care.</p><p>Dobbs makes things worse. An estimated <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.prisonpolicy.org%2Fblog%2F2021%2F12%2F08%2Freproductive_choice%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658378972739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DEDn692sbvv%2FT8%2B0x9fNIrtw3dWuyGKGsca9vbDpeZA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">58,000 pregnant women</a>
enter prisons and jails each year. For incarcerated women, obtaining an
abortion and access to reproductive healthcare was already nearly
impossible, despite several <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.guttmacher.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fpdfs%2Fpubs%2Fpsrh%2Ffull%2F4105909.pdf&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658378972739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=CGg1bp00cA%2F0%2BO5lHxNNJ42rdWKNp6U2TR0z8PHfIgE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">court decisions</a>
upholding the right of people in prison to access abortion. In
antiabortion states, of course, it is now completely impossible. This is
also true of women sentenced in federal court, and in Washington, D.C.,
who may be sent to a federal prison in an antiabortion state.<span> For
women incarcerated in states with abortion bans, traveling to another
state is out of the question, as is accessing abortion medication by
mail.</span></p><p>But it’s not just women in prisons and jails. On any
given day, millions of women on probation, parole and pretrial release
are subject to myriad forms of state <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpapers.ssrn.com%2Fsol3%2Fpapers.cfm%3Fabstract_id%3D3808657&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658378972739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=NaDnOQm2pM3qyVi27EtSKfYTFYMu80kpzgvVhRNtwgc%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">surveillance and control</a>. Thousands of women wear <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Ftech%2Ftech-news%2Fincarcerated-home-rise-ankle-monitors-house-arrest-during-pandemic-n1273008&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658378972739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=YFIszI1OSs%2FLeSwlDUutjtkAVYOSoA8LO9XbDCe7deU%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">GPS-equipped ankle monitors</a> that <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenewpress.com%2Fbooks%2Funderstanding-e-carceration&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658378972739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=c0xsg8Zge2w2eZtQo4m1x8wiEiUgGAHBj0ecbKQSLGo%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">track</a>
their location 24/7. This surveillance also often entails warrantless
searches of cellphones, including of text messages, social media and web
browsing history. Some ankle monitors also include two-way <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwashingtoncitypaper.com%2Farticle%2F178161%2Fdc-agency-purchases-ankle-monitors-that-can-record-defendants-every-word-and-motion%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658378972739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4hNhtWiVtohKbnojpPBrziJWefbbh0HrcJe0obG8AR0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">audio functions</a>
that allow supervising agents to listen in on any conversations. This
surveillance allows government officials to monitor, listen and read all
communication, including with doctors, pharmacists and others.</p><p>Women on court supervision or monitors are often <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpapers.ssrn.com%2Fsol3%2Fpapers.cfm%3Fabstract_id%3D3930296&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658378972739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=P9l0Pjbs1oYwyxakZCZjO5fSXzg97zSUftMCNpLwPsU%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">not permitted</a>
to leave their homes or change their schedules without prior
permission. A trip to the doctor, a prenatal appointment or a pharmacy
depends on the approval of a government official, which may not be
timely or may never come. Women on court supervision are also almost
always prevented from leaving the state. Any unapproved trip out of the
house, or state, can result in more jail or prison time. For women on
court supervision in states with abortion bans, <a href="https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2022/06/30/roe/" target="_blank">accessing abortions</a> without government detection is not possible.</p><p>These <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpapers.ssrn.com%2Fsol3%2Fpapers.cfm%3Fabstract_id%3D3388009&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658378972739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=2OVRcoJ8YzGAl1XtyAKLRjr55PK%2BpUJfugTjP25NP8c%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">carceral surveillance</a>
methods — all standard features of criminal court supervision and
pretrial release — can be deployed not just to surveil women’s
reproductive health, but also to prosecute new “criminal acts,” i.e.,
illegal abortions, or other behavior that might be viewed as a <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fslate.com%2Fnews-and-politics%2F2022%2F06%2Fdobbs-pregnant-women-surveillance-ivf-bans-abortion.html&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658378972739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kN88ChHgaDa0HFJI4H%2FzoxkLLjnd8fJbHm%2BtuRPjGt0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">threat to the fetus</a>. This is not conjecture: <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheintercept.com%2F2022%2F06%2F18%2Fdc-police-surveillance-network-protests%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658378972739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=NqTlAgmRGljU%2FxYiVl6bcjtA32GDzYBwejY40ygJ8iE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">Police</a> regularly use geolocation data gathered from GPS-equipped ankle monitors to <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpapers.ssrn.com%2Fsol3%2Fpapers.cfm%3Fabstract_id%3D3604391&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658378972739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dGEXOYlXhZti4oqYANp0wSPZQjFUphYJZECnY134w94%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">investigate</a> potential crimes without a warrant.</p><p>As states <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fslate.com%2Fnews-and-politics%2F2022%2F06%2Fdobbs-decision-paves-the-way-for-criminalizing-reproductive-healthcare.html&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658378972739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ZmBswNPN6f3HG0TM8WJ4Mez4QusTKJzZJmitBooXISc%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">criminalize</a> abortions and offer <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Ftexas-abortion-law-bounty-hunters-citizens%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658378972739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PzW2uyxl2iqITYYes3KxmCsDSRlq5e42xDn%2FIxNCQf0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">bounties</a> to people who identify those who help women obtain abortions, the <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholarworks.law.ubalt.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D2078%26context%3Dublr&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658379128944%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=znFSMMarqw2MqriiVd54PtwHLgkNyxYO3UgGSRCWKyA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">digital trail</a>
of women on court supervision will be especially easy for police and
prosecutors to detect, follow and use in criminal prosecutions. For
example, a woman who becomes pregnant shortly after being ordered to
wear an electronic ankle monitor for several months could easily be
prosecuted if she visits a women’s health clinic or tries to leave the
state to obtain an abortion — and her geolocation data trail could also
be used to build a prosecution against her doctor or Lyft driver. While
Google has pledged to delete geolocation data reflecting visits to
abortion clinics, women forced to wear ankle monitors will not benefit.</p><p><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.propublica.org%2Farticle%2Fdigital-jail-how-electronic-monitoring-drives-defendants-into-debt&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658379128944%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0yl8oHyLVXcvZAAMsusFflewobX8pd%2BaGIAtyFStBTI%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">Private surveillance companies</a> operate the GPS tracking devices and, increasingly, cellphone tracking devices. Carceral <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Finquest.org%2Fthe-case-against-e-carceration%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658379128944%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=jJYu4FFCsRTP4BLjDZ1UJuD0%2B850ub3qf5sVmvUFA6E%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">surveillance technology</a> is a big — and <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.bloomberglaw.com%2Fwhite-collar-and-criminal-law%2Fcovid-19-created-a-bigger-market-for-electronic-ankle-monitors&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658379128944%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2BDvqBGuqEg2qx9S8CgVFAaFzck%2F6gAMXY4k%2B%2F0pIGqQ%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">growing</a>
— business with few limits on what these companies do with the private
data they collect. By the terms of their contract, these companies
regularly hand over extensive geolocation data to the courts, police and
government agencies.</p><p>While all women’s privacy is threatened
post-Dobbs, the decision will be felt acutely and immediately by
low-income women of color already subject to criminal court control. To
be sure, these concerns are not limited to women in the criminal legal
system. Women in <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic1.squarespace.com%2Fstatic%2F5a33042eb078691c386e7bce%2Ft%2F60ec661ec578326ec3032d52%2F1626105377079%2FImmigration%2BCyber%2BPrisons%2Breport.pdf&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658379128944%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=aVjudTAk0U3EO3YPs8l4pjTzPuHWq5ZiaCE4E%2B%2FkJmI%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">immigration proceedings</a> and <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.law.berkeley.edu%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F04%2FReport_Final_Electronic_Monitoring.pdf&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658379128944%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Ky8dtsVBSDklJdUyOKsSpcbmu3eEh8y42%2F8rSc%2F8%2FBk%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">juvenile court</a>
are also subject to electronic surveillance and incarceration. For all
these women, state surveillance has long undermined — if not outright
eliminated — bodily autonomy, reproductive freedom and privacy.</p><p>As Congress, state legislatures and <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Foutlook%2F2022%2F06%2F01%2Froe-dobbs-big-tech%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658379128944%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=OM35iQhsmZs%2BhqX8WHJrapUOV5oAOjvVag%2FvlHh74Rw%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">Big Tech</a> are rightly called on to codify Roe and <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fslate.com%2Ftechnology%2F2022%2F06%2Fend-roe-civil-right-intimate-privacy-data.html&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658379128944%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=eFX4wBDk8AG1PBD43P0yA2M1GlwyygTMo9%2BRwSUCN1M%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">protect privacy</a>, the interests of women already subject to state surveillance cannot be ignored. Privacy has never been <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sup.org%2Fbooks%2Ftitle%2F%3Fid%3D25115&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658379128944%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=85o4gqZ6Meta9bVuhvlfh%2Bjre6yH%2FwkyIn8taXQtKek%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">equally distributed</a> among women in the United States, and any legislative or regulatory response to Dobbs must account for this reality.</p><p>The
root problem is larger than unequal access to abortions or privacy. The
failure of the Dobbs opinion to consider the impact on <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmsmagazine.com%2F2022%2F06%2F27%2Fsupreme-court-abortion-rights-loss-dobbs-roe-black-latina-women%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658379128944%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=cDAWlsO4%2B3T55Zf3SQ%2F9naxdGFje018VF2KC4sI%2FUL4%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">women’s lives</a>
is no anomaly. Women in the criminal legal system, especially poor
women, rural women and women of color, have long been ignored and blamed
for their own predicaments. As a result, the carceral state continues
to expand through new means — like electronic monitoring of people in
the criminal, juvenile and immigration systems. And this monitoring
allows for the perfect detection and prosecution of illegal abortions
and other related crimes.</p><p>This dire outcome, however, is not inevitable. Learning from the lived <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmediajustice.org%2Felectronic-monitoring-hotspots%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658379128944%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2BwlaPdvGm8HoLUp8WpU8v7394ipzmw2VQX5KDz3NrJM%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">experiences</a> and <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeingsusanburton.com%2Fpodcast%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cphilip.gray%40latimes.com%7C40bbe2d5229b4dfb444708da5b46f4e7%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637922658379128944%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=d1Phd9vcE5z5JGJEq5mM%2B9TiQnERTJS0b7TPIF0ps1w%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">voices</a>
of these women should serve as a call to arms to end our reliance on
the carceral state. So many people who are in jail or prison should not
be, and so many people under criminal court supervision don’t need to
be. The disastrous circumstances facing pregnant women under criminal
court control must similarly be a wake-up call to vote for leaders who
will pass laws that protect privacy and reproductive freedom for <i>all</i> women.</p><p><i>Kate Weisburd is an associate professor of law at George Washington University School of Law.</i></p></div></div></div>
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