Mobile Billboard Truck & Projections

From March 8th to March 14th, all over Austin.

During the first week of SXSW 2024, Repro Uncensored was proud to partner with For Freedoms, Plan C, Women on Web, Project for Empty Space, Fight for the Future, and Essentials Creative to demand that Big Tech end its role in fueling abortion surveillance and censorship and to uplift body freedom.

It’s hard to ignore the harsh dichotomy of thousands of people safely traveling to Texas to attend SXSW on the one hand - and on the other hand, Texas’ abortion ban and the many Texas border counties that have passed anti-abortion travel restrictions into law. Texas isn’t alone: on top of the 20+ laws that ban or severely restrict abortion access nationwide, a handful of lawmakers in Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Idaho now want to criminalize any person or group––like an abortion fund––that helps someone cross state lines for an abortion.

Many of the Big Tech platforms at SXSW are playing a role in enforcing these draconian bills by censoring information about accessing safe abortions and by turning over data used to criminalize people for violating state anti-abortion laws. As attacks on abortion and bodily autonomy increase, we fear that incidents of tech companies’ data serving as key evidence in anti-abortion lawsuits will also increase.

We need tech companies to stop collecting, retaining, and sharing data unnecessarily, and to stop censoring critical abortion information from providers and advocates.

We also need lawmakers and government agencies to do everything in their power to protect abortion facilitators, abortion seekers, and anyone exercising their right to bodily autonomy.