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.”
Stop insulting Jonas Grumby!
Libtard Death Barge in the Gulf
If it's botched really bad, she probably wouldn't survive the swim back to mainland and with a blood trail, the sharks would finish her off. So, nobody would really know.
Maybe have a casino and drinks on the boat as well. Make a day of it
The old seemed like a good idea at the time law will be learned the hard way by these mutants. Me thinks these people have no open water experience. Nevermind interference from pro lifers, nature itself is going to present even bigger challenges.
Are there really that many abortions to have a floater ?
States can make it illegal to transport people from their shores to this boat. Penalties could include incarceration for the owners and crew, along with confiscation of the boat and any other property with in the state.
“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 . . .”
They are really going after poor people, perhaps the kind Margaret Sanger and the secret society group targeted.
“Unloved and unwanted” as they say.
They’d have to be twelve miles offshore - and they’d have ship up-keep and maintenance for boats travailing back and forth.
That’s more expensive that a clinic in an adjacent state... or a bus ticket to a Blue State.
I suspect this is a drama queen stunt to get attention and pity... and nothing will be built in the Gulf of Mexico.
The democrats are the party of death.
Isn’t that the truth? They act as if there is no way to avoid pregnancy. They are utterly insane.
Their world revolves around sex and abortion
Sink it. A Greenpeace-style operation.
If you are going to these lengths to kill babies, hell is going to be extra hot for you.
Murder On the High Seas
e\Especially if most or are are non-White.
“Feed the fish their aborted fetuses?”
The parts are too valuable. They will sell them.
“Reproductive services” is the euphemism the Marxists use for violent child murder as a means of population control.
The left sure are desperate to keep murdering defenseless u born human beings
Maybe those sharks that still follow the slave ship routes will find it.
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