Points to Coriolanus for making this about Trump 1st post in! Bravo!

Arrested for what? She has not committed a crime. The Texas law is onerous, but it targets abortion providers, not abortion recipients. She need not fear prosecution.

This is the reason I hate articles like this, the misinformation promotes fear and can literally CAUSE a woman in this predicament to fear she is being "hunted" and avoid getting medical help when things go awry.

I agree, we don't know her reasons for not contacting her family. She is an adult and entitled to that privacy. When missing adults are located safe by law enforcement, their whereabouts and circumstances are not revealed to their families or the public without their consent. That is what apparently occurred here.

Yes, the surveillance state is disturbing, as is the false premise of the story, that officers used that technology to "hunt an abortion seeker", rather than the fact that they used the technology to locate an endangered missing person.

I don't like the dystopia reality of AI, but if my daughter was missing and possibly in medical distress, I wouldn't turn it down. It is a slippery slope for sure.

Yes, the surveillance state is disturbing, as is the false premise of the story, that officers used that technology to "hunt an abortion seeker", rather than the fact that they used the technology to locate an endangered missing person.

I don't like the dystopia reality of AI, but if my daughter was missing and possibly in medical distress, I wouldn't turn it down. It is a slippery slope for sure.

The thing that keeps getting left out of this intentionaly misleading story is that the woman did not simply "get an abortion", prompting an investigation. She did a DIY abortion without medical supervision (because it is illegal in TX) and then disappeared for an entire month. Her family and friends called police because they were concerned she may have experienced complications or be in medical distress. She met the criterion for a critically endangered missing person and THAT is the reason the officer utilized "83000 cameras" to locate her (likely done with a few mouseclicks). The abortion itself was not investigated or prosecuted.

Would it have been better if the officer had told the family, "I'm sorry your daughter is missing and maybe hemorrhageing in a hotel room, but since she had an abortion we are not allowed to look for her" ?