Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin seems to be trying to out-creep his counterpart in Florida, Ron DeSantis. The Virginia Governor helped to defeat a bill this week to put menstrual data stored on period-tracking apps beyond the reach of law enforcement.
Ladies, if you have a menstrual-tracking app, get rid of it. We saw this coming when they overturned Roe. No matter what excuses Republicans try to offer for this invasion of your privacy, it’s obvious what they’re doing.
Via The Guardian:
A bill passed in the Democratic-led state senate, and supported by half the chamber’s Republicans, would have banned search warrants for menstrual data stored in tracking apps on mobile phones or other electronic devices.
Advocates feared private health information could be used in prosecutions for abortion law violations, after a US supreme court ruling overturned federal protections for the procedure last summer.
But Youngkin, who has pushed for a 15-week abortion ban to mirror similar measures in several Republican-controlled states, essentially killed the bill through a procedural move in a subcommittee of the Republican-controlled House.
Citing unspecified future threats to the ability of law enforcement to investigate crime, Maggie Cleary, Youngkin’s deputy secretary of public safety, told the courts of justice subcommittee it was not the legislature’s responsibility to restrict the scope of search warrants.
We see you, Governor. We know what Republicans are trying to do.
