In April 2017, Latice Fisher, a woman from Mississippi, arrived at a hospital suffering from a miscarriage. She was later indicted on a charge of second-degree murder. Prosecutors used her search history and her online purchase of the abortifacient drug misoprostol as evidence to allege that she had murdered her fetus.
After Politico released a draft of the US Supreme Court’s majority opinion to strike down Roe v. Wade on Monday, activists, academics, and lawyers who spoke to WIRED say they are worried that cases like Fisher’s may become more common and that tech companies are not ready for the choices they will face in a post-Roe America.
“What we do know is what we’ve already seen [law enforcement] do in criminal court,” says Cynthia Conti Cook, a litigator and tech fellow at the Ford Foundation who has researched the use of surveillance technology to criminalize abortion….
