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Will it leave telling holes and what about locations near clinics as mindful from Google Maps in dense area's how it thinks you went to one shop when you did not and just happened to be near there.

Would be better if it randomly shifted visits to nearby stores to mask things instead of telling holes in the data.

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I think the idea is that while any person could probably connect the dots, in a courtroom the fact that they were around the clinic is purely circumstantial and therefore insufficient to prove someone got an abortion.

That won't help much with civil lawsuit states like Texas then.

Well for Texans they could just break into Mexico over the border and get an abortion there as it was legalised in Mexico in 2021. Ironic I know. But the whole prospect of border patrols/checks noting who is pregnant enterying Mexico and suddenly not upon return is an aspect that may well come to pass.

The commenter was referring to the Texas law that allows anybody to sue someone in civil court if they have evidence they got an abortion. Texans going to Mexico would still open them up to these lawsuits.

How can that work as a law? More so it will only encourage `accidents` to facilitate loss of pregancy, which will only further endager life due to fear of being sued by some Texan. Really is shocking and deeply worrying.

>How can that work as a law?

It cannot, and they don't care that it cannot. The cruelty is the point.

> noting who is pregnant enterying Mexico and suddenly not upon return

Abortion is legal up to 12 weeks in Mexico. As a result, anyone showing up even at peak 12 weeks would not be visibly pregnant from outside the car.

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