WaPo Article Pressures Big Tech To Support Abortion Rights

A second article is available at the Washington PostAppelled Big Tech companies to support the rights of women.

Rebecca Wexler (Aziz Huq) and Rebecca Wexler (the authors of this article) said that technology companies were given the opportunity to state their position. 

“Big Tech could either chose to cooperate with antiabortion states by shutting down the flow of useful information and handing over inculpating data. You could protect health information from outsiders and make new privacy safeguards. Firms headquartered in pro-abortion rights states — who generally have younger, left-leaning workforces — have strong internal incentives to defend reproductive choice, but it would be foolish to doubt that they will also experience strong pressure from antiabortion politicians and activists.”

The authors alleged that shared online data from the companies could “aid antiabortion prosecutors.”

“Abortion rights advocates have focused particular attention on period tracking apps, such as Flo and Clue,” the article read. “But many other kinds of data could aid antiabortion prosecutors. Fitbit products, for example, collect weight, activity, heartrate, and sleep data — which also can provide telltale clues about pregnancy. The company promises to share it only ‘for legal reasons, or to prevent harm.’”

The article alleged that “nothing” would stop prosecutors from subpoenaing data to prosecute doctors who perform abortions in states where the procedure was restricted or outlawed.

“…Fitbit data has already been used as evidence in cases ranging from rape to murder, and nothing is stopping prosecutors from subpoenaing similar data to sustain abortion prosecutions.”

An article with a similar position was published on the paper’s website last month. 

NewsBustersIt was reported that Activision Blizzard’s employee protested the lack of paid leave for her to exercise her right to protest against abortion restrictions.

“Right now, within Activision, there are many employees distracted and scared for the future,” Emily Knief, a senior motion graphic designer at Blizzard who identifies as transgender, told It PostAt the time. “Mr. “Mr. And I can say without hesitation that, as of right now, he’s failing all of us.”

Knief said that company policy required employees to do their job instead of protesting it.

“While bodily autonomy may be a hot-button issue, [companies like Activision Blizzard] are disregarding the very real lives of the people that it impacts,” Knief added. “The many women, trans men and nonbinary folk within the company that are forced to carry on their day-to-day meeting expectations of their role while also being mindful of the fact that their ability to regulate their own bodies may soon become criminalized.”

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