Abortion: Joe Biden to issue executive order to protect online privacy

Published on: 08/07/2022 – 15:40 The President of the United States will take a series of regulatory measures on Friday to protect the online privacy of women seeking abortions. The text also plans to protect mobile abortion clinics at the borders of these states, to guarantee access to contraception and abortion pills, but also to organize a network of volunteer lawyers. Joe Biden, much criticized in his own camp for his defense deemed timorous of the right to abortion, will take, on Friday July 8, a series of regulatory measures to, among other things, protect the confidentiality on the Internet of women wishing to terminate a pregnancy. According to a statement from the White House, the US president will sign an executive order to “protect sensitive health information” and “combat digital surveillance” related to abortion. The text, whose scope remains limited in the face of US states having decided to ban abortion, also plans, among other things, to protect mobile abortion clinics at the borders of these States, to guarantee access to contraception and abortion pills, and to organize a network of volunteer lawyers.>> Read also: “United States: how personal data could be used to track illegal abortions”With AFP