“So, let’s just give you some general tips for your own reproductive health today. Just as an upfront thing, a lot of what I’m gonna tell you might sound very conspiratorial right now or even extreme: it’s not. In fact, you can find criminal cases where following some of these tips might’ve actually prevented prosecutors from bringing a case against someone. It’s that bad.
[By] the way, a lot of the research from this video I pulled out of this report [“Pregnancy Panopticon; Abortion Surveillance After Roe” by Albert Fox Can, Esq. Eleni Manis, PhD, MPA, May 24, 2022] by the S.T.O.P. organization. Go read it, I promise you it is worth your time.
As many smarter people than me have said right now, delete your period tracking apps. Do it. If you expect your cycle to be disrupted for any reason whatsoever, use cash to buy any medicines. If possible leave your phone at home while buying those medicines.
If you do buy contraceptives, make sure not to horde them. 1. They have a shelf life 2. That can attract suspicion, and 3. Frankly, a lot of people need them right now. Speaking of; use cash for everything, every purchase related to your reproductive health. Crypto is nowhere near as safe as you think it is and I don’t need to tell you not to trust Amazon or third party retailers with your purchase data.
Communications is extremely important here because prosecutors can and will pull the search data of people they are trying to prosecute. For all searches related to your reproductive health use a VPN and use TOR, I promise you DuckDuckGo and Incognito mode are simply not enough. For one-to-one communications you need to use something that is end-to-end encrypted: For text messaging that’s an app like signal for email that’s an app like proton mail. Make sure that the data from those apps is not stored locally on your phone or in the cloud; enable disappearing text messages or regularly delete that data, especially if you’re crossing state lines, borders, or anywhere else where someone might want to watch you.
Your phone can still get pings and be tracked even if you turn it off, so if you really want to be safe enable Airplane mode and [disable] any kind of NFC [near-field communication] or bluetooth, and if you want to be extra double secure you can buy small Faraday cages that physically block electromagnetic radiation. Be sure to test them on your phone when you get them.
If you’re traveling, you need to be extremely careful about who you tell the reasons for your travel. Don’t post about it on social media at all. Don’t tell anyone who doesn’t need to know. By the way, that very much includes your doctor or nurse. Because yes, while your data is protected by HIPPA, HIPPA is not an absolute defense, and if a state is trying to conduct a criminal investigation your personal health information can be subpoenaed. There are some limits to that but they won’t necessarily be enough to protect you. If you want to know more about this, you can look at Connecticuts Reproductive Freedom Defense Act which seeks to protect people who travel to the state to get abortions.
And lastly, be very careful. You need to approach this with the same level of caution that you would approach a drug deal, because the fact is either today or in the next few weeks for over 80 million Americans abortion will now be an illegal medical procedure. You need to be careful, and for what it’s worth there are clinics in Ontario, Canada, that provide abortions at low cost and without asking for permanent residency or for any kind of ID or Passport. Avail yourself of them.
Stay safe, you can do this.”
Deleting your period tracker isn’t enough; you need to get in contact with the company that owns the app and ask them to delete your data. This can take a month. Do it now.
TOR and VPNs: you shouldn’t use them at the same time, here’s a post explaining why: https://hobo-rg.tumblr.com/post/640948530679349248/is-there-any-value-in-using-a-vpn-for-security . If you need a VPN, here's a good activist run one: https://riseup.net/en/vpn. Anything you have seen in a YouTube sponsorship is not going to work for this.
