
This FDA Program Is Collecting Birth Control Data from Teens
A federal program is collecting a trove of intimate monthly birth control data on hundreds of thousands of patients, many of whom are teens, including the results of mandatory pregnancy tests. In the post-Dobbs world, where anti-choice actors are aggressively hunting down data about women’s reproductive health and teenagers are sentenced to jail time for seeking abortion care, the “iPledge” program stands out as a unique risk to the privacy rights and freedom of young women and AFAB people.