On May 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court operated in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization A marking historical reversal, beyond American borders, the contemporary history of the female cause. By five votes against four, she recognized that the right to abortion is not a constitutional right.
revoking the fragile foundations of the ROE v. Wade – Yet established since 1973 and largely consensual within the American population -, the judges invoked the uncertain rooting of this right in the history of the nation, law which could not, according to them, be considered as an essential component of “ordered freedom”.
In all Western democracies, the decision sounded like the resounding echo of a battle that was naively thought of the past. It uncovers deaf divisions, the fragility of the female condition and the guarantees that surround it in our law states. Because, despite the comforting pleadings that place Europe safe from conservative impulses, recent Polish laws, the proactivity of certain lobbies in Europe or the conditioned effectiveness of this right to conscience clauses testify that the old continent n ‘is not spared.
condition access to law and threatens confidentiality
Europeans are not immune, and times have changed. If many observers deplore a “backtrack”, we want to alert for the singular technological context in which the decision of the American Supreme Court is part. Online exposure of female intimacy is a sadly known and studied phenomenon: safety flaws for monstrous cycles at the Revenge Porn, it generates a difficult to control vulnerability.
The digital horrors of the abortive course are another aspect, which conditions access to law and threatens confidentiality. They start with access to information, clinics and practitioners: a journey engaged by the disinformation and stigma of women. On some very well referenced sites, which play standards with official sites, we can read that abortion would make it sterile, weaken women and cause lasting psychological sequelae.
The digital course continues in the attendance of abortion clinics – which geolocation makes it possible to establish – and in our digital communications, however private, likely to be exposed. As intimate as the choice of a woman who aborts, he is a shared secret, if not with her loved ones, with the digital giants. And nothing guarantees that these American companies keep it preciously, when its resale to data brokers is particularly lucrative.
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