How the UN’s ‘Sex Agency’ Uses Tech to Save Mothers’ Lives
[ad_1] Toward the end of 2020, on a work trip to Chocó, Colombia, Jaime Aguirre came across a girl—perhaps 11 or 12 years old—holding a newborn. “Is this your baby?”…
Midwives Are an Overlooked Climate Solution
[ad_1] What’s keeping midwives from making a larger dent in the fight against climate change? To start with, there are not enough of them. The United Nations reports that there’s…
The Shaky Future of a Post-Roe Federal Privacy Law
[ad_1] New York’s junior senator says Republicans aren’t “connecting all the dots about what it means for them.” “It is so expansive and so harmful, I don’t think people have…
The End of Roe Will Spark a Digital Civil War
[ad_1] Over the past 10 years, the primary threats to US internet freedom have come from abroad, as countries like China, Russia, and India have erected barriers to the flow…
The Woman Who Became a Company Has Lessons for a Post-Roe World
[ad_1] In 2014, Jennifer Lyn Morone decided to protect her data in the only way she could as an individual: She incorporated herself. Jennifer Lyn Morone Inc. operates as a…
What Abortion Pill ‘Reversal’ Really Accomplishes
[ad_1] The American antiabortion movement is on a full-court press to remake the nation in its image. In June, its decades-long campaign to install sympathetic Supreme Court justices paid off…
At Some Colleges, the Fall of Roe Will Weaken Student Health Care
[ad_1] What then, is the best recourse for activists and aid organizations? In both access-friendly states and those with bans, campus activists are pressuring university administrators to support students: to…
Hollywood’s Role in the Post-‘Roe’ Era
[ad_1] The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Last week’s episode of Rap Sh!t…
Meta Just Happens to Expand Messenger’s End-to-End Encryption
[ad_1] A Nebraska woman and her 17-year-old daughter are facing felony and misdemeanor charges related to allegedly performing an abortion after 20 weeks, which has long been illegal in the…
In Humanity’s Collective Unconscious, the Body Is a Bad Dream
[ad_1] The first images that I tried to generate from Dall-E Mini were of cartoon characters getting colonoscopies. The website, now called Craiyon, houses an artificial intelligence model that turns…
Facebook’s Message Encryption Was Built to Fail
[ad_1] The details are chilling. Police raiding a home, a teenager and her mother arrested, fetal remains exhumed from a rural burial plot. When police dragged off a 17-year-old Nebraska…
The Fall of Roe Makes Complex Pregnancies Even Riskier
[ad_1] Doctors who care for pregnant people often have to make time-sensitive decisions when lives are on the line. But in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision,…
The Right to Travel Out of State for an Abortion Isn’t as Secure as You May Think
[ad_1] Now that Congress has failed to pass a bill that would guarantee a right to travel across state lines to obtain an abortion, many are worried that conservative states…
After Roe, Men Might Finally Get Better Birth Control
[ad_1] Phase 2 trials test a drug for both efficacy and safety, typically in hundreds of volunteers, and look for harmful or unpleasant drug reactions. A previous Phase 2 trial…
The Supreme Court Accidentally Spurred a Data Privacy Push
[ad_1] Hi, folks. The winner of the week is Reed Hastings, who lost a million subscribers but saw Netflix’s stock skyrocket because he didn’t lose more. What a showman! The…
Period-Tracking Apps, Ranked by Data Privacy: Flo, Clue, Stardust, Period Calendar, Period Tracker
[ad_1] This not only shifts the burden of risk assessment to individual users, but also makes evaluating the privacy and security of apps difficult to begin with. To do so,…
Embryonic Research Could Be the Next Target After ‘Roe’
[ad_1] Two weeks after the US Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion, Ye Yuan heard from a woman who wanted to reverse her decision to donate her…
Abortion Pill Demand Is Driving an Underground Network
[ad_1] The panic started as soon as Jayda took the test in early July. It came back positive, and a quick calculation suggested she was seven weeks pregnant. It was…