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.”
None of this is normal God-fearing human behavior. You can feel evil in your soul when it becomes this flagrant. I pray for the intervention of the Holy Spirit to enlighten these wretched beings and wrest their wayward souls from the Devil’s grasp.
OMG the absolute freaking out over abortions with ALL of the birth control on the market today is absolutely stunning!!
They have no say in the matter. It’s just their lives.
So murdering is funded by philanthropy?
“What are these Democrats going to do now? Feed the fish their aborted fetuses? These people are evil.”
Funny you should say that!!! Remember Dr. Kermit Gosnell? The one in Pennsylvania. Remember the exotic, endangered sea turtles he had in his office for his patients to see? Well the clams he was feeding them, fed off of aborted fetuses from his office.
Great....she wants a floating abattoir to do her will. I guess she’s gonna call the US Coast Guard when she completely botches one of her butcheries then..
It’s all about MONEY and using a hot ticket schtick to further that goal
Hurricane season coming up. Leave it to God. Hope no “coasties” are in danger.
I doubt his malpractice insurance will cover him!
This total obsession the left has with abortion is just plain sick. Weren’t these the same people who years ago told us something to the effect they wanted abortions to be “legal, safe but RARE”?
Require that the ship be powered by electric and solar. Kill the babies but save Mother Earth.
The ALAMAGA Gun Barge and Dynamite S
The horror of those meanie rebels
Well, now I know where I can go to pick up easy girls if they shut all the planned parenthood clinics down
I hope it sinks, I really do.
I didn’t need to know that.
States have jurisdiction to 3 miles out. With Florida and Texas, it’s 9 miles on the Gulf side.
They’re insane, just insane.
Never enough death clinics for libtards 🤪
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