The FBI Is Hunting a New Domestic Terror Threat: Abortion Rights Activists

"After GOP pressure, FBI abortion “terrorism” investigations increased tenfold, government data shows.
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Last year, as the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade sparked major protests nationwide, the FBI opened nearly 10 times as many investigations into cases of abortion-related domestic terrorism as it had in 2021, a new internal report reveals."

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#DomesticTerrorism #abortion #MyBodyMyChoice #abortionrights #USA #FBI

The FBI Is Hunting a New Domestic Terror Threat: Abortion Rights Activists

^{Ken Klippenstein (The Intercept)}

Facebook and Google are handing over user #data to help police prosecute #abortion seekers

"As abortion bans across the nation are implemented and enforced, law enforcement is turning to social media platforms to build cases to prosecute women seeking abortions or abortion-inducing medication – and online platforms like #Google and #Facebook are helping.
This spring, a woman named Jessica Burgess and her daughter will stand trial in #Nebraska for performing an illegal abortion — with a key piece of evidence provided by #Meta, the parent company of Facebook."

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#tracking #Profiling #surveillance #sozialeKontrolle #criminalisation #USA #antireport #MyBodyMyChoice

Facebook, Google give police data to prosecute abortion seekers

Social-media sites are inundated with police requests for user data and may cooperate even if not legally required to, one legal expert told Insider.

^{Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert (Business Insider)}

South Carolina becomes the latest GOP-led state with a #bill to make the death penalty a punishment for #abortion

"Several states have banned and criminalized abortion since the #SupremeCourt overturned Roe v. Wade.
A #SouthCarolina legislator proposed the death penalty as punishment for women who get abortions.
The new bill, still in the legislature, would equate abortion to homicide."
Via @BinGanzBrav

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#socialwar #MyBodyMyChoice #USA #Kriminalisierung

SC is the latest state with bill to punish abortion with death penalty

The bill, which is still in the legislature, aims to define a fetus as a living person and equate terminating a pregnancy to homicide.

^{Sarah Al-Arshani (Business Insider)}