A California doctor is proposing a floating abortion clinic in the Gulf of Mexico as a way to maintain access for people in southern states where abortion bans have been enacted.
The idea is to provide a clinic aboard a ship in federal waters, and out of reach of state laws, that would offer first trimester surgical abortions, contraception and other care, said Dr. Meg Autry, an obstetrician and gynecologist and a professor at the University of California San Francisco.
“There’s been an assault on reproductive rights in our country and I’m a lifelong advocate for reproductive health and choice. We have to create options and be thoughtful and creative to help people in restrictive states get the health care they deserve,” she told The Associated Press.
Autry said the idea is only in the fundraising stage through the non-profit, “PRROWESS” — short for “Protecting Reproductive Rights Of Women Endangered by State Statutes.”
The proposal comes as abortion access in the southern United States has been swiftly curtailed after the U.S. Supreme Court turned the issue of abortion back to the states.
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas have had abortion bans take effect. A Florida law, which is in effect after a legal back-and-forth, prohibits abortions after 15 weeks, with exceptions if the procedure is necessary to save a life, prevent serious injury or if the fetus has a fatal abnormality.
Autry said their legal team believes there is a swath of federal water where licensed providers could safely and legally provide abortions out of reach of state laws. For women in southern states with abortion bans, going to the coast and boarding a boat may be closer and easier than trying to travel to a state where abortion remains legal, she said.
“This is closer and faster access for some people, particularly for working people that live in the southernmost part of these states,” she said.
Autry said they are still trying to work out many of the details such as where the boat will launch and how women would get to the ship.
The above comes from a July 10 AP story posted on Yahoo.
We have reached the point of no return, no reconciliation in the American cultural divide. The enemy (Democrats) must be purged. Let the great purge begin. Make America great again by ridding it of Democrats.
Perfectly said…
The American people have lost confidence in major American institutions for good reason.
yes … it seems that all the states on
the Gulf have abortion restrictions.
maybe the baby-killing barge can be
berthed in New York Harbor … or
embark directly from SF Bay ang go
through the Panama Canal.
Nothing is too much trouble or too
expensive to advance the cause
of baby-killing on the SS Gavin Newsome
Yes, the SS Gavin Newsome would only be able to dock at West Coast pro-abortion states– Calif., Oregon, and Washington. No doubt, its home would be at a pier on the SF Bay. Good place for pro-lifers to hold prayer vigils and hand out pro-life literature, and invite the hurlsvto vone to Crisis Pregnancy centers. This extremely immoral UCSF professor and OB-GYN lady doctor, ought to be spending her life and career, helping women and girls in crisis pregnancies, to get help from crisis pregnancy centers, which she ought to help operate. She is immoral– no integrity at all! A horror for young medical students, and female patients! “Lady Doctor Death!”
My comment of July 11 at 9:45pm had an error at the end of the third sentence. It should read, “… and invite the girls to come to Crisis Pregnancy centers.” Of course, a deadly abortion ship is not needed, for states on the West Coast, as they are so evilly pro-abortion.
Wow. The picture of that woman is quite…. revealing.
“You know the thing about a shark…he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eye. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t seem be living, until he bites ya and the black eyes roll over white.” Cap’n Quint
I have a better idea. Just invent a time machine and then travel into the past or the future where abortion is permitted.
If babies could only mutiny and make the pirates walk the plank.
They made a movie about that. It’s called “Alien”.
Get the 4chan kids to sink. Won’t even have to pay they’ll do it for the laughs.
“Dr.” Autry could be creative by
hanging from the bowsprit – that would
be a true manifestation of her “PRROWESS”
In Europe, for many years, they have had abortion ships, sponsored by abortion organizations like Marie Stopes International (re-named MSI International) and Women on Waves. However, pro-life countries have always refused to allow them to dock at their ports. In America, I don’t think any of our Southern states– from Texas to Florida–would allow an abortion ship to dock at their ports.
The Gulf of Mexico states, in order, are Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. All of these states are Pro Life states. None of them would allow a ship which provides abortions, to dock at one of their ports. A pregnant woman seeking an abortion would have to get on a boat, and go far out in the Gulf, to an area not restricted by any Pro-Life state laws, to meet up with an abortion provider on a ship.
i don’t know how large a woman
Meg Autry is. But if she travels on the boat
to personally perform the killing and happens to
be “full figure” – she should henceforth be referred
to as “Large Marge on the Barge.”
Why are there so many evil people in the Bay Area?
Just move Auschwitz and Treblinka into the north sea and they will be moral. Put the ovens on cargo ships. It will be “safe” then and the Nazis can do what they want with their own bodies.
I’m surprised libs aren’t promoting the sanctuary city for abortion nonsense like they have for illegal aliens.
There are mercy ships which bring healing, health and hope to those in need. This would be a vengeance ship, brutally killing babies for the behavior of her or his parents.