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Milano University Press

Tele-abortion: between privacy and women’s reproductive rights

  • Sara Dal Monico (author)
Chapter of: Law in the Age of Digital Technologies(pp. 403–425)
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TitleTele-abortion: between privacy and women’s reproductive rights
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.54103/milanoup.215.c460
Landing pagehttps://libri.unimi.it/index.php/milanoup/catalog/book/215
PublisherMilano University Press
Published on2025-07-28
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Women’s reproductive health in general and the right to abortion in particular have been targeted and challenged in recent years world-wide in a number of countries: to name a few, first the almost entire ban on abortion in Poland 2020, then the overthrow of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court of the USA in 2022. Although in international law a right to abortion has not been expressly codified in any international binding convention, regional courts have tried to recognise the existence of such right as a corollary to other human rights such as the right to privacy and the right to be free from inhuman or degrading treatment. To overcome such challenges, in some US States and in South America, a practice has emerged drawing from the most recent developments in e-health, which is that of tele-abortion, which would allow women in need of ending an unwanted pregnancy to access the service remotely, through the abortion pill and with the supervision of a doctor through a series of online meetings. Nonetheless, resorting to such method raises a number of legal issues, which this paper aims at analysing and examine in depth from an international law perspective. Among the issues addressed by this paper, is whether tele-abortion can be considered as a means to ensure women’s reproductive rights, which will be approached through an intersectional lens, as well as the close connection between tele-abortion and women’s right to privacy, focusing on the safeguarding of the collection and storage of data in case of tele-abortion. In this regard, the paper will highlight the legal vacuum in international law in terms of the developments of e-health particularly, and AI in general, fields in which the international legal framework is still lagging behind.

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