When I was in high school in the early 2000s, a friend asked me to help her find emergency contraception. It wasn’t the first time. By the time I was 16, I had helped more than five friends access Plan B, an STI test, or birth control when they didn’t want their parents to know they needed it.
I found Planned Parenthood the way you found anything back then: the phone book. I looked up the number, called them, and got my friend an appointment. The information was just there, available to anyone who looked.
Most teens today look for that same information online; in spaces that are far easier for corporate and political interests to control. And these entities are taking full advantage. Meta’s AI chatbots are now trained to block teens from accessing abortion information, even in states where abortion is legal. A Palantir CEO is openly bragging that his AI will reduce the economic power of women voters. And girls in schools across the country are being deepfaked and sexualized while administrators look the other way. It’s a coordinated Republican attack on women and girls in America and it’s time we connected the dots. Let’s dive in.
Blocking Teens from Abortion Info
Mother Jones recently obtained leaked documents which revealed that Meta’s AI chatbots (across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) are explicitly barred from providing users under 18 with information about reproductive anatomy, contraception, STI prevention, consent, or anything “that helps a user obtain or carry out an abortion,” including directing a teen to Planned Parenthood.
Meta’s official response claimed that this is about protecting minors, but since when is withholding health information a protective measure? This is a company that loudly prides itself on having built real pathways for teens in mental health crises, but physical health crises like an unintended or life threatening pregnancy? Apparently not their problem.
The chatbots also aren’t respecting state law. Remember that whole Republican argument for the overturning of Roe to “send it back to the States”? In tests run from New York (where minors can legally access abortion without parental consent) the chatbot would start to answer the inquiry of where to find an abortion, offering legally accurate context, before deleting its own response and replacing it with an error message. This is in a state that has explicitly protected the right to information about abortion with no age restrictions. Tell me how that reflects respecting the will of the State.
The chatbot would start to answer the inquiry of where to find an abortion, offering legally accurate context, before deleting its own response and replacing it with an error message.
This is happening in the context of 20 states having enacted abortion bans and the Trump administration having defunded Planned Parenthood and restricted medication abortion access. Against this landscape, we know this is a political maneuver where tech companies are aligning with Republican interests to actively suppress abortion access and information. When a teen asks AI how to get an abortion and only receives an error in return from a platform that can surface literally anything else on the internet, that’s the system working exactly as designed.
Training Girls to Accept a World That Violates Them
While tech giants and politicians are controlling the information we receive, their AI is also normalizing abuse of these same girls through deepfakes. In recent weeks, two different school districts have grossly mismanaged the handling of harmful images and videos of their students.
In Pennsylvania’s Council Rock School District, AI-generated photos and videos of several girls were reported. Their parents say administrators waited five days to contact police and never notified the wider community, even after two boys were charged. The district administrators basically denied everything and hoped it would go away. We won’t let it. A similar story unfolded in nearby Radnor, where families were told that police found no evidence of wrongdoing only for police to later confirm a student had been charged with harassment related to sexualized images of multiple girls. These are minors.
AI-generated sexual images have become a new form of harassment that schools are evidently completely ill equipped to handle. As a result, girls are learning that not only can their images be weaponized against them, there’s also really not much they can do about it, and their safety is secondary to institutional optics. So much for bodily autonomy. They are being taught that sexual humiliation is a normal risk of girlhood in the digital age. When schools fail to treat this as violence, they train a generation of girls to expect that institutions will not stand between them and digitally enabled male entitlement. It’s heartbreaking.
They are being taught that sexual humiliation is a normal risk of girlhood in the digital age.
The New GOP Fantasy
Adult women are being fed the same bullshit. Just a week ago, Palantir CEO Alex Karp said the quiet part out loud. He described AI as a force that would fundamentally redistribute power in American life and was explicit that this re-distribution would very intentionally uplift certain demographics while disenfranchising others. Take a wild guess where women landed here.
His technology, he said, “disrupts humanities trained, largely Democratic voters, and makes their economic power less, and increases the power, economic power, vocationally trained, working class, often male voters.” He basically framed the losers as “highly educated, often female voters who vote mostly Democrat” and the winners as “vocationally trained, working class, often male voters.”
He was giving a political sales pitch of AI as an engineered transfer of power away from liberal, degree-holding women and toward a demographic Republicans believe they can more easily control. This was his direct long-term pitch to the GOP: weaken the influence of educated, liberal women, empower a base Republicans can easily redpill and manipulate.
A Coherent Strategy of Control
These three stories are three faces of the same strategy.
AI is being sold to conservative power brokers as a way to reduce the economic and political power of liberal, degree-holding women and eroding the very base that organizes for abortion rights, gender equality, and labor protections. Meta’s chatbot policies turn a potential lifeline into a gatekeeper, making informational deprivation an extension of access deprivation. And school deepfake incidents of sexualized images created without consent and administrators slow-walking responses prepare girls to live in a world where their bodies are raw material for others’ experimentation.
AI is being sold to conservative power brokers as a way to reduce the economic and political power of liberal, degree-holding women and eroding the very base that organizes for abortion rights, gender equality, and labor protections.
The same AI ecosystems that automate white-collar work can also power surveillance and content moderation tuned to conservative political agendas. When a CEO signals that his tech can reduce the power of educated Democratic women and a social media giant encodes abortion censorship into its bots, they are advertising a worldview that treats women’s autonomy — in their workplaces, their bedrooms, their classrooms, and their search bars — as a problem to be managed rather than a freedom to be protected.
What Feminists Need to Demand Now
Reproductive justice is inseparable from AI policy, platform governance, school discipline, and labor politics. Here’s what we need to do:
AI regulation must be gendered. Any serious AI regulation must account for how automation targets women-dominated fields and how AI tools enable reproductive surveillance.
Platform accountability is reproductive justice. We have to treat Meta’s policies as part of the same fight as clinic buffer zones and telehealth access by demanding the lift of abortion-info bans, auditable moderation policies, and a commitment to treat abortion as healthcare.
Schools must treat deepfakes as gendered violence. Clear protocols, strict timelines for notifying families and law enforcement, trauma-informed support for victims, and policies that frame deepfakes not as “bullying” but as sexual harassment and abuse.
Surveillance contracts must be part of repro advocacy. When agencies contract with firms like Palantir or rely on Meta’s infrastructure, advocates need to ask: Can this data be repurposed to track abortion seekers, providers, or protesters? Because it can.
Resist the divisions. Karp’s framing explicitly pits vocationally trained, often male workers against humanities-educated, often female workers. The Republican strategy depends on dividing women from each other. We must insist that economic security, bodily autonomy, information access, and freedom from digital violence are non-negotiable for everyone.
Republican strategists see the synergy between a world where teens can’t get abortion information from the platforms they rely on, girls are left to fend for themselves against AI deepfakes, and highly educated women are nudged out of stable work in favor of “often male” vocational workers. They see a future where women are poorer, more misinformed, more surveilled, and more afraid. They are building it.
Being repro ready means seeing it too and organizing as if our jobs, our data, our classrooms, our searches, and our bodies are all part of the same fight. Because they are.
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Is Alex Karp, a Palantir CEO, related to Brad Karp, former NYC CEO of Paul Weiss biglaw firm? (He is still one of the partners.) Epstein connection, misogynists abound!
Thanks for the excellent analysis and plan. We must tell Karp and his school to go jump in the lake.