After the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, states were given sweeping authority to ban and even criminalize abortion. In Texas -- where the officer who conducted this search is based -- abortion is now almost entirely banned. But in Washington and Illinois, where many of the searched Flock cameras are located, abortion remains legal and protected as a fundamental right up to fetal viability.
A Texas sheriff used 83,000+ license plate reader cameras to track a woman "suspected of having an abortion." The reason listed in the record: "had an abortion, search for female."
-- Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org) Jun 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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#3 | Posted by ScottS
The search was about safety not a killer.
Anti-abortion voices love to argue that they're not trying to control women, they're trying to protect women. Funnily enough this same talking point came up in this case. Sheriff Adam King of Johnson county, Texas, told 404 Media that the woman had self-administered the abortion "and her family was worried that she was going to bleed to death, and we were trying to find her to get her to a hospital." He added: "We weren't trying to block her from leaving the state or whatever to get an abortion. It was about her safety." (emphasis added)drudge.com
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