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The emergence of FemTech technologies promises to revolutionize women's health and reproductive rights but conceals an insidious trap of surveillance and control in the hands of private and state actors. This article examines the extent to which FemTech technologies, under the guise of empowerment, enable private actors to play a leading role in managing reproductive rights, replacing largely inactive States in this crucial function. The analysis shows how private FemTech companies are becoming critical players in implementing and defending these rights, often in response to the inaction or inadequacies of States. The article approaches the FemTech phenomenon from several angles, including the promises of empowerment, concerns about surveillance and control, and the ambivalent roles of private actors as implementers and defenders of reproductive rights. This structure makes it possible to offer a critical analysis of the legal, societal, and ethical implications of FemTech, highlighting the tensions between the promises of empowerment and the risks of surveillance and control.
RESUMO
During the COVID-19 pandemic, solidarity has been referred to many occasions to justify the measures imposed on individuals by public authorities. If solidarity benefits from a kind of common understanding, it is no less complex to define it in a consensual way. In addition, recent years have been marked by a strengthening of individual responsibility which contributes to the erosion of the principle of solidarity in our society. The purpose of this contribution is to demonstrate the omnipresence of this principle in the field of public health by means of concrete examples.
Au cours de la pandémie de Covid-19, la solidarité a été évoquée à de multiples reprises pour justifier les mesures imposées aux individus par les autorités publiques. Si elle bénéficie d'une sorte de compréhension commune, il n'en demeure pas moins complexe de la définir de manière consensuelle. En outre, ces dernières années ont été marquées par un renforcement de la responsabilité individuelle qui contribue à l'érosion du principe de solidarité dans notre société. La présente contribution a pour vocation de démontrer l'omniprésence de ce principe dans le domaine de la santé publique au moyen d'exemples concrets.