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Law enforcement and civil litigants may turn to companies to gain access to data that could help prove that a person sought, received, aided or provided an abortion. (Oscar Wong / Getty Images)

BY JENNIFER WEISS-WOLF and ALEXANDRA REEVE GIVENS | Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Center of Democracy & Technology has released a set of best practices for companies to adopt in order to better protect the privacy and safety of people seeking, providing or otherwise supporting abortion care. 

Without transparency, companies could sell data to law enforcement and civil litigants which could help prove a person sought, received, aided or provided an abortion. The best practices call on companies to consider and closely review the types of individual user data they have access to, and minimize the collection of revealing information. 

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Jim Brown with his wife Sue Brown during a court recess in July 1965, in which Brown was on trial for beating Brenda Ayers, an 18-year-old girl. (Bettmann / Getty Images)

BY JACKSON KATZ | When football legend and civil rights icon Jim Brown died at 87 years old on May 18, commentary about his life and legacy downplayed his long history of violence against women.

One of the extraordinary ironies of Brown’s life is that he was a Black man who, in the face of stinging racism, demanded to be treated as a full human being who was “not going to be pushed around or disrespected.” But he allegedly did just that, and worse, to many Black women.

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A woman casts her ballot in Chicago’s mayoral race on Feb. 28, 2023. (Kamil Krzaczynski / Getty Images)

BY JESSICA MASON PIEKLO | As our rights backslide, so too does our democracy—which is why feminist concerns are always and inevitably democratic concerns. This is a point we need to reinforce over and over and over again as this country gears up for the 2024 presidential election—the first since the Court stripped core rights away in Dobbs. 

(This essay is part of Women’s Rights and Backsliding Democracies project—a multimedia project made up of essays, video and podcast programming, presented by Ms., NYU Law’s Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network and Rewire News Group.)

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