Can Technology Help Protect Womens’ Reproductive Rights?

Cate Lawrence
The Startup
Published in
5 min readJun 2, 2019

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I was alarmed to read this week that the Alabama Senate has passed a bill to outlaw abortion under almost all circumstances, including cases of rape and/or incest. Under the bill, doctors face 10 years in prison for attempting to terminate a pregnancy and 99 years for carrying out the procedure. It’s just one recent example of the legislative erosion of women’s reproductive rights. Fortunately, for decades, women’s reproductive rights groups, health providers, technologists, and hackers have been working together internationally to support a women’s right to…

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Cate Lawrence
The Startup

Tech journo and writer, based in Berlin, Germany. I don't really write on medium much but you can find me on LinkedIn and Twitter