Roadblock to Care

• Healthcare seekers are traveling far from home to obtain abortions and gender-affirming care due to new state laws that penalize evidence-based medicine.

• Prosecutors and state officials can use countless surveillance tools, from automated license plate readers to street cameras, to identify and track those seeking, facilitating, or assisting out- of-state care.

• They can also weaponize commercially available surveillance data. S.T.O.P. used one data broker’s platform to place the homes of visitors to an Illinois abortion clinic across the river in Missouri, where abortion is banned.[1]

• Several strategies can mitigate tracking risks for those traveling for care in the U.S.

This report was supported in part by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation .

We extend a special thanks to our external reviewers: Edward Hasbrouck, The Identity Project (PapersPlease.org).

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