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.”
That's what I always understood, if it is a Federal boundary it is also the State's.
Don’t worry, if the botch the abortion they will just toss them overboard
yup- and how-
Love Amy Johnson so fine
First they tried the idea of federal baby killing stations set up in “federal” land.
Then it was offshore.
The amount of energy being expended in the quest to let as many women as possible kill as many of their babies as possible, is unhealthy. It is the sign of a mind that doesn’t work right.
LOL
Bingo! This is not real, just an attempt at provocation.
I dont give a flying fig what a priest does or does not forgive. Christ will forgive abortion the same way He forgives any other sin. If the guilty party turns to Him in faith and humility and repents they will be forgiven. No sin is bigger than Cbrists forgiveness
Maybe not subject to abortion restrictions in nearby states, but most definitely subject to being a boat. Fuel, food, harbor in bad weather, etc.. where is that all coming from? From the states whose laws she's flouting? Also, anyone think they're going to get a "donated" boat that doesn't need major repairs and regular maintenance?
Federal waters go out 12 nautical miles; a weaker set of claims goes out 24 nautical miles, and the “Exclusive Economic Zone” goes out 200 nautical miles.
All of the boundaries are subject to “or half the distance to the next country, whichever comes first.”
Federal waters go out 12 nautical miles”
No, post #81 is correct. Depending on state and location it’s 3 and 12. I know of no Federal 12 mile unless it’s some fishing or other type of regulation, I am unaware of.
Make that 3 and 9.
Texas is 9 because that is what Spain had and Texas entered the Union with the 9 mile limit.
“A three hour tour...A three hour tour...”
We all know how that ended.
Abortions were first legalized in the Soviet Union in 1920. In some ways it’s a core policy for communism since it coarsens a people to view life as having lesser or no value. There are many ripple effects throughout society as a result. Interestingly enough the Soviet Union seeing the effect it had on birth rates banned it around 1936 for the following 19 years after which it was legalized again and remains so.
The left in the US of course followed the USSR lead and with their success of Roe in 1973 like you say became obsessed with it. I think part of it is demonic and a lot of it is wrapped up in the sexual revolution that happened prior to Roe. Free and easy sex sort of requires it as insurance.
What could go wrong.”
Eric Rudolph in scuba gear.
Great idea.
Good Info/Data, I see where you get 12 miles. BUT, the issue at hand is how far a U.S. State such as Alabama or Texas could extend it’s state law jurisdiction on abortion out into the Gulf of Mexico. The 12 miles is for international affairs between the U.S. and other countries. Presumably, a barge or ship would have to be 9 miles plus off the Texas coast to perform abortions without risk of violating Texas law.
I have been on small gambling/casino ships that went out past the 9 mile Texas limit and then turned on the slots and opened up the tables.
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