Posted on 06/21/2022 5:39:32 AM PDT by Morgana
FORT MYERS, Fla. — At a Planned Parenthood health center on Florida’s Gulf Coast, new restrictions on who can get an abortion are shaking up routines and creating challenges for the clinic’s patients, doctors and nurses.
The center, in Fort Myers, has seen a steady influx of patients from Texas since last September, when a ban on all but the earliest abortions took effect there, and from other states that have tightened access to the procedure over the past year.
It is also adjusting to a waiting period that took effect in Florida in April after years of litigation, requiring patients seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound and then wait at least 24 hours before returning for the actual procedure. And a new state law banning most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, instead of the current 24 weeks, is set to take effect on July 1, although Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers in the state have sued to try to block it.
On top of those changes, the Supreme Court is poised to issue a ruling that could overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision legalizing abortion throughout the United States. Florida is not among the 13 states with so-called trigger laws, which will quickly ban nearly all abortions if Roe is overturned. But several nearby states have such laws, so the center could end up seeing even more visitors from out of state after the ruling. And the Florida Legislature could enact more restrictions.
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Odd that pregnant women will travel all the way to Ft. Myers FL from Texas. New Mexico and California would be accessible to these people.
Did a NYT headline just call a Planned Parenthood center an “Abortion Clinic”? What happened to claiming that abortion was only a small part of the services there ?
Killing babies is hard.
With travel expenses, that more-than-likely immoral sexual activity is beginning to be a bit costly, isn’t it? Why not just live morally and avoid the expense?
Once the killing is over they can go to the beach and party like nothing ever happened! C'mon man, get with it!
Awww I feel so bad for the poor clinic. No. No actually I don’t. i weep for the innocent lives they destroy. Planned parenthood can’t reap it’s just rewards from the Creator of those lives quickly enough.
Apparently, not for some.
Take a number we’ll give you a call in April.
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