Politico October 1, 2024
TECH MAZE
Data privacy fears are hampering research on abortion, threatening to leave doctors and scientists in the dark about the health impacts of bans affecting a third of the country, according to people who study the procedure.
It’s yet another ripple effect of the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision that removed federal protections for abortion, allowing more than a dozen states to impose near-total bans on the procedure.
Though no researcher or research subject has faced charges since the fall of Roe, the chilling effect impacts studies on abortion, contraception, fertility and maternal mortality. This has raised experts’ fears that less and lower-quality data will negatively shape how doctors provide clinical care and government policymaking at the state and...
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