# Cycles of Control: Reproductive rights and digital risks Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921/cycles-of-control-reproductive-rights-and-digital-risks Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921/cycles-of-control-reproductive-rights-and-digital-risks.md Podcast: [Technology Pill](https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921) Published: 2025-07-18T11:11:15+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/technology-pill/episodes/Cycles-of-Control-Reproductive-rights-and-digital-risks-e35nbsi Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/152674c8/podcast/play/105672018/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-6-18%2F404132497-44100-2-ae75803b66d63.m4a Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/technology-pill-560921/episodes/cycles-of-control-reproductive-rights-and-digital-risks Duration seconds: 3613 ## Resource This week we're talking to Martha Dimitratou from ReproUncensored, and PI's own Sarah Simms about the international landscape for reproductive rights, and including barriers to access to reproductive healthcare, including abortion; and how big tech are collaborating with or supporting tactics to make access to healthcare harder. Links - Learn more about Repro uncensored: https://www.reprouncensored.org/ (incident form) - Repro Uncensored incident report form: https://www.reprouncensored.org/report-incident - Adriana Smith's case: https://www.jezebel.com/georgia-takes-brain-dead-woman-off-life-support-after-using-her-corpse-as-incubator - More about Adriana's case: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-5405542/a-brain-dead-womans-pregnancy-raises-questions-about-georgias-abortion-law - UK Decriminalisation: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2le12114j9o - Privacy International's Menstruation apps research: https://privacyinternational.org/learning-resources/no-bodys-business-mine-vol-2 - Research on Bing's Typo-searching: https://www.reprouncensored.org/research/bing - MSI on the Global impact of Roe V. Wade being overturned: https://www.msichoices.org/latest/the-global-effects-of-roe-v-wade-being-overturned/ - Report by Fòs Feminista on the Global Impact of the Dobbs Decision: https://fosfeminista.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The-Global-Impact-of-the-Dobbs_Preliminary-Findings-Fact-Sheet-1.pdf - Meta getting rid of factchecking function: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly74mpy8klo - Amazon USA report called Obstacles to Autonomy, which includes info on advertising account restrictions: https://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Obstacles-to-Autonomy-Post-Roe-Removal-of-Abortion-Information-Online.pdf - An Independent report on state funding for 'fake… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/technology-pill-560921/episodes/cycles-of-control-reproductive-rights-and-digital-risks/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921/cycles-of-control-reproductive-rights-and-digital-risks.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.