Posted on 05/20/2022 11:19:44 AM PDT by Morgana
ACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Leaders of a Tennessee abortion clinic calculated driving distances and studied passenger rail routes as they scanned the map for another place to offer services if the U.S. Supreme Court lets states restrict or eliminate abortion rights.
They chose Carbondale in Illinois - a state that has easy abortion access but is surrounded by more restrictive states in the Midwest and South. It will be the southernmost clinic in Illinois when it opens in August.
"I think at this point, we all know the stark reality that we´re facing in Tennessee. We are going to lose abortion access this year," said Jennifer Pepper, chief executive officer of CHOICES: Memphis Center for Reproductive Health.
With the Supreme Court poised to let states tightly limit or ban abortion, reproductive rights advocates are planning to open new clinics or expand existing ones in states where lawmakers are not clamping down on access.
Some Democrat-led states in the West and Northeast also are proposing public money for an expected influx of people traveling from other places to terminate pregnancies.
When it opened in 1974, a year after the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide, CHOICES became the first abortion provider in Memphis, a commercial hub for rural Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and southern Missouri.
Carbondale is a three-hour drive north of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee's two largest cities. It's also on a New Orleans-to-Chicago Amtrak route through areas where abortion access could disappear, including Mississippi, western Tennessee and western Kentucky.
"Its location and geography were the original reason that drew us to Carbondale, but the incredible heart of the Carbondale community is what led us to know we had found a second home for CHOICES," Pepper said in announcing the plan last week.
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There’s no mention at all of the fact that a large number of lives will be saved. Yes, some women hellbent on aborting will drive long distances to Illinois or the Northeast or swing a Gavin Newsom abortion-tourist junket to sunny California. But many won’t. It’ll be too much trouble. And the mere inconvenience will be a reminder that they’re doing the wrong thing.
Possibly that leaked draft was intentional by the Supreme Court to spread out the shock when Roe is officially overturned.
Agreed. The story might as well tell it like: "Gee! We'll soon miss the good ol' days when it was easy to find a good hit man."
Could they open on Indian reservations like that did with casinos?
Technically yes. If the tribes let them. However I think they still need licenses from the state that they would not get.
I hope it involves seppuku.
They could offer real medical care instead of killing babies. Oops, I understand they can make a lot of money selling baby body parts.
The Baby Body Parts business is quite lucrative!
They will start advertising in surrounding states
Probably work out a deal with Disneyland. Cali is gonna keep it going.
The Magic Kingdom Abortion Plan
The male and female Disney groomers will cry a bit though. Less to pick from for them.
Right on target!
Those who are on the fence or half hearted will not.
So there will be a net gain for the good.
And best of all, we may now have an actual debate on abortion which is something we not had for a long time.
"Shut up" is not a debate.
Only the worst scum in existence would want to murder babies.
Abortion advocates want to murder babies.
Therefor, abortion advocates are the worst scum in existence.
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