Cycles of Control: Reproductive rights and digital risks

This week we're talking to Martha Dimitratou from ReproUncensored, and PI's own Sarah Simms about the international landscape for reproductive rights, and including barriers to access to reproductive healthcare, including abortion; and how big tech are collaborating with or supporting tactics to make access to healthcare harder.

Links

- Learn more about Repro uncensored: https://www.reprouncensored.org/ (incident form)

- Repro Uncensored incident report form: https://www.reprouncensored.org/report-incident

- Adriana Smith's case: https://www.jezebel.com/georgia-takes-brain-dead-woman-off-life-support-after-using-her-corpse-as-incubator

- More about Adriana's case: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-5405542/a-brain-dead-womans-pregnancy-raises-questions-about-georgias-abortion-law

- UK Decriminalisation: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2le12114j9o

- Privacy International's Menstruation apps research: https://privacyinternational.org/learning-resources/no-bodys-business-mine-vol-2

- Research on Bing's Typo-searching: https://www.reprouncensored.org/research/bing

- MSI on the Global impact of Roe V. Wade being overturned: https://www.msichoices.org/latest/the-global-effects-of-roe-v-wade-being-overturned/

- Report by Fòs Feminista on the Global Impact of the Dobbs Decision: https://fosfeminista.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The-Global-Impact-of-the-Dobbs_Preliminary-Findings-Fact-Sheet-1.pdf

- Meta getting rid of factchecking function: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly74mpy8klo

- Amazon USA report called Obstacles to Autonomy, which includes info on advertising account restrictions: https://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Obstacles-to-Autonomy-Post-Roe-Removal-of-Abortion-Information-Online.pdf

- An Independent report on state funding for 'fake' clinics: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/crisis-pregnancy-center-public-funding-abortion-b2629678.html

- Women on Web report about the Digitalization of Anti-Abortion groups: https://www.womenonweb.org/en/page/20603/breaking-down-the-myths-around-abortions-misinformation-the

- ShaketheDust map of fake clinics: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10I3LLyLn73gVKKM-fsWUY9snDhp3SQG38gmtNwJ6bEA/edit?tab=t.0

- Digital defence fund digital security and abortion: https://digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/abortion-privacy

- Facebook messages in Nebraska case: https://time.com/6298166/nebraska-abortion-pill-case-legal-experts/

- Nicola Packer case in the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93y5gq09x7o