Posted on 07/10/2022 8:59:37 AM PDT by Morgana
A California doctor plans to offer abortion services to women in Southern states such as Alabama, via a boat that operates as a floating clinic in federal waters off the Gulf Coast, according to news reports.
Dr. Meg Autry, an OB-GYN in San Francisco, aims to raise about $20 million for the project known as PRROWESS, or Protecting Reproductive Rights of Women Endangered by State Statutes.
“The project is being funded with philanthropy and the patients care is on a needs basis, so most individuals will pay little to nothing for services,” Autry said in an interview with NBC Bay Area.
Autry, who’s also a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, said the floating clinic will provide surgical abortions up to 14 weeks, contraception, on-site testing for sexually transmitted infections and more.
Her goal is to offer reproductive services to women in states with laws that ban abortion, limit the procedure or make it hard to access. A team of licensed medical professionals would staff the clinic for about three weeks per month, according to Autry’s plan.
PRROWESS hopes to acquire a donated boat, Autry said, that would be transformed into a floating clinic. Money raised by the project also would be used for ongoing costs such as patient care, security and liability insurance.
Autry said she’s been pondering the idea of a floating clinic for years, but her plans were “accelerated” by the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
“I’m a lifelong educator, an abortion and reproductive rights advocate,” Autry said in an interview with KCBS, a San Francisco radio station. “And I strongly, strongly believe in equitable health care, and so this has just kind of been my life’s work.”
The clinic, floating in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, would not be subject to abortion restrictions in nearby states, according to the FAQs on the PRROWESS website.
As a general rule, federal waters begin nine nautical miles from the coast of Texas, and three nautical miles from the coasts of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. Patients will be transported to the ship in various ways, depending on the distance, once they pass a pre-screening process.
For women seeking abortions in Southern states, a trip to the floating clinic may be easier than traveling to other states where abortion is legal, the PRROWESS website says.
“Our research indicates that patients are willing to seek care in a floating clinic, and these types of facilities have been used by the military and relief organizations for years,” the PRROWESS website says.
Although Autry and her team say their plans for the floating clinic are legal, they expect backlash and legal challenges from states that have banned or limited abortions.
“We have a very powerful legal team,” Autry told NBC Bay Area. “I’m sure there will be legal barriers and problems at every part of this journey.”
Also being that he is out to sea, pro lifers can have their own boats around and really go to town surrounding the ship blasting pro life messages. Just try to get a "bubble zone" in open waters.
What could go wrong.
philanthropyLet's check with the slaughtered babies about their being on the receiving end of such "philanthropy."
noun
1. The effort or inclination to increase the well-being of humankind, as by charitable aid or donations.2. Love of humankind in general.
3. Something, such as an activity or institution, intended to promote human welfare.
It can’t go wrong during Hurricane Season. Just once would they name one after me, “Hurricane Morgana” when and if that boat was out in the waters. I. Would. Love. It.
Dummie Commie Cali .
They had one in Ireland. Catholic country. Now it’s legal there. There will be internal battles.
They should fly the skull and crossbones flag. Stealing a life.
Mark Steyn was on the James Golden/AKA Bo Snerdly radio show a couple of weeks ago.
Steyn said, US women were invited to Canada to have an abortion by Justin Trudeau; Styen added the only problem with that is, the wait time for the abortion is ten months.
Oh goody!! & if she was really smart, she can raise money for The Butchering Flotilla by allowing a film crew & will be like that reality series Below Deck 🙄
How about an offshore gun store? In which purchasers don’t “cross state lines” to bring guns home to their coastal states?
Yes I’ve heard of these type of boats around the world. They take the women out of countries that have abortion illegal and give them abortions in open waters then take them back to their home countries.
They stop at nothing to kill babies. Is why I said earlier today the war is just beginning now that Roe is gone. They will try harder and so must we.
Sorry maam a wave hit and I aborted your intestines.
What are these Democrats going to do now? Feed the fish their aborted fetuses? These people are evil.
The SS Margaret Sanger.
Pope Francis allows priests to forgive abortion.
Good heaven! Absurd. Horrific.
Don’t eat any fish off the Alabama coast in Gulf of Mexico.
They would like nothing more than everything centralized and commanded out of Washington, with states simply being administrative zones with no real power.
They are doing everything they can to circumvent Dobbs and try to impose their beliefs on states that clearly said no.
I hope she gets seasick.
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