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Six digital tactics conservatives use to undermine reproductive rights

From collecting your personal data to geofencing abortion clinics, anti-choice groups have gone digital. Here’s how – and how to protect yourself.

Six digital tactics conservatives use to undermine reproductive rights
Finding truthful reproductive health information online can be difficult. | Illustration: Inge Snip
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Technology can expand access to health information, services and care. This can help protect lives, especially in places where such access is otherwise impossible, including during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.

But the backlash against sexual and reproductive health and rights is well organised. It has also gone digital, and right now, we’re more online than ever.

As women increasingly use online platforms to access reproductive health information and services, we must learn to defend ourselves from anti-choice activists who seek to undermine our reproductive rights using digital tools.