‘More and more, part of [their] punishment will be not getting access to healthcare’
Los Angeles — Women who have to wear court-ordered surveillance tags that restrict their movement could struggle to access safe abortions, as more US states crack down on the procedure following June’s Roe v Wade reversal, campaigners say.
“For a woman who is wearing an ankle monitor in Mississippi or Alabama with an unwanted pregnancy or one that’s endangering her life ... it might be impossible for her to travel outside of the region to get an abortion,” Burton added. With an ankle monitor, “it’s so easy to track and see if they are involved in anything having to do with abortion — going to a provider, or even driving a relative there,” she said.An estimated 58,000 pregnant women enter prisons and jails each year, and many are unable to access abortions.
There are no official numbers on how many women are currently wearing ankle monitors or are under other forms of court-ordered surveillance. A 2016 report by Pew said about 125,000 people were wearing ankle monitors. Immigration authorities also increasingly rely on the technology to keep tabs on immigrants with cases pending before immigration courts.
Of the nearly 2.3-million people imprisoned in the US, 40% are black, according to the Prison Policy Initiative nonprofit, and more black women live in states set to ban abortion.
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