When data is dangerous: Emerging media and abortion access work in post-Roe America

In this article, we question how increasingly invasive emerging technologies will continue to shape, shift, benefit and/or constrain social movement organizing. In particular, we refer to organizations involved in the current abortion access movement in post- Roe America. In this particular political climate, as the corporate demand for personal data grows alongside state surveillance, we wonder how organizations directly offering services, resources and information around abortion might continue to shift their practices. Time and again, technologies are wielded in innovative ways for liberation. However, we argue the rising popularity of ‘smart’ technologies presents unique challenges to the ongoing abortion access movement.