Floating abortion clinic Boat planned off Alabama coast

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Floating abortion clinic planned off Alabama coast in Gulf of Mexico​

Updated: Jul. 10, 2022, 7:07 a.m. | Published: Jul. 10, 2022, 7:00 a.m.

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By Mary Colurso | mcolurso@al.com
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.

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Floating abortion clinic planned off Alabama coast in Gulf of Mexico

The clinic, floating in federal waters, would not be subject to abortion restrictions in nearby states, according to Dr. Meg Autry.

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[CarmelBarbie]

Them conservatives mad as hell right about now.

 

[Mandarin Duck]

Why did Aaliyah's Rock The Boat just come into my head.

 

[Bubba T]

This sounds absolutely absurd

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

this what they do in third world countries.

America has become everything they mocked. regression politics is real.

wake up both siders

 

[Lurkio]

some crazy cac gonna sink that shyt

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

This sounds absolutely absurd

For America yes...

Muvs - Floating clinic has been helping women for ten years

muvs.org

The Dutch charity ‘Women on Waves’, which wants to prevent women around the world from being subjected to illegal and therefore dangerous abortions, often dying from them, has been in existence since 18th May 1999. To achieve its aims, ‘Women on Waves’ provides medically safe abortions on a ship. The not-for-profit organization was set up in May 1999 by doctor Rebecca Gomperts, who had previously worked as a doctor on Greenpeace ships. ‘Women on Waves’ has become known in particular for its high-profile campaigns, in which its floating clinic visits countries where women are denied access to contraceptives and legal abortions.

 

[ORDER_66]

Something bad gonna happen to this thing

 

[Bubba T]

For America yes...

Muvs - Floating clinic has been helping women for ten years

muvs.org

Never knew this. It’s still absurd that this has to happen.

 

[FrontoBama]

Why did Aaliyah's Rock The Boat just come into my head.

Dead people on islands.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Something bad gonna happen to this thing

They should have never mentioned the idea publicly without having the resources in play to make it happen considering the fact that now Republicans are going to have time to try find some loophole to prevent the idea from happening.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Never knew this. It’s still absurd that this has to happen.

yes it's absurd because this shyt used to be relegated to places with no women's rights.

Abortions don't stop because they are illegal, they just get more desperate and gruesome.

America looking funny in the light and a bunch of idealist moralists are going to have to observe a reality they are far removed from if that ban stands for years.

 

[RamsayBolton]

While we're at it...

French women push to cement abortion rights after US ruling

The right to abortion in France has been inscribed in law for 47 years and enjoys broad support across the political spectrum.

apnews.com

America looking dumb as hell to the rest of the civilized world right now

Women and minorities in other countries are gonna feast on civil rights movements made in response to white supremacist republicans regressing the U.S.

 

[I Really Mean It]

Reminiscent of Children of Men.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

They should have never mentioned the idea publicly without having the resources in play to make it happen considering the fact that now Republicans are going to have time to try find some loophole to prevent the idea from happening.

the ships hover around international waters. republicans have no say or jurisdiction. that's not America