Low-tech security is a major issue in a post-Roe world.
, an anonymous group of Chicago-area women known only as The Janes came together to provide safe, clandestine abortions to pregnant people in need. Over the course of several years, the group provided over 11,000 abortions. When, it wasn’t because of police surveillance or the group’s anti-war activism or even their willingness to provide abortions to the pregnant family members of police officers. It was a family member of a Jane patient who tipped off the police.
Fifty years later, the threat that took down The Janes still looms large for people seeking abortion under criminalization. While activists rightly warn about text messages, browser histories, and other digital evidence trails, it’s low-tech — and human — security breaches that often pose the greatest risk.“The biggest threat to the privacy of abortion seekers is other people,” says Laura Huss, a senior researcher at, a legal organization dedicated to protecting the rights of abortion patients.
But, she notes, this isn’t always foolproof. In her own life, Bracey Sherman has seen multiple instances of an avowed abortion supporter changing their tune once the reproductive rights battle pops up in their own backyard. “Somebody’s super, super pro-choice until they realize someone in their family needs an abortion,” she says. “Then all of the assumptions they have about who has abortions and why come to the surface” — and things can get ugly fast.
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