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-Great Cultural Revolution
Pro-Abortion Group Threatens Southern States with ‘Floating Abortion Clinic' in Gulf of Mexico
2022-07-11
[Breitbart] In 2019, Alabama passed the nation’s strictest anti-abortion prohibition into law, offering no exceptions beyond a pregnancy that threatens the mother’s life.

Immediately after Gov. Kay Ivey (R-AL) signed the bill, U.S. Middle District of Alabama Judge Myron Thompson ruled the law could not go into effect based on Supreme Court precedents that forbid bans before fetal viability. However, following the release of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, Thompson lifted the injunction, and the ban is now law.

A San Francisco-based pro-abortion activist group, known as PRROWESS, or Protecting Reproductive Rights of Women Endangered by State Statutes, seeks to offer an end-around Alabama state law and other nearby states with abortion bans by offering election abortion services offshore in the Gulf of Mexico in international waters.

PRROWESS’s Dr. Meg Autry, an abortion provider in San Francisco who describes the procedure as her "life’s work," told NBC Bay Area she seeks to raise about $20 million for a floating abortion clinic.
Posted by:Besoeker

#16  "Ahoy there!" Or, An ancient mariner shouts her abortion...

Sure, I sailed me wee baby away
On a three hour tour of the bay,
But the sharks and the ghouls
And the wymyn, in schools,
They say, follow the route to this day!

Not to mention the shrinks.
Posted by: Choluling tse Tung8399   2022-07-11 23:57  

#15  The US Coast Guard can inspect civilian vessels for 'safety purposes' practically anywhere they can get away with it(the ship being boarded doesn't have a large military saying you can't). Set up shop and wait for the inevitable inspection ...so this is silly from the start.
Posted by: magpie   2022-07-11 16:52  

#14  Remember when it was cool to protest the concept of offshore facilities being built to explicitly avoid US law?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-07-11 12:57  

#13  #5 ..and then also #10 for sure.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-07-11 12:30  

#12  I'm with Tom. Not certain if a better illustration of "pure evil" could be found.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-07-11 12:09  

#11  ^ Brought to you by the same people who always screech "Why couldn't the Po-Po have just wounded him? Or let him go?" Their zest for the utility of killing is quite selective.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-11 11:54  

#10  This obsession with killing babies is just pure evil.
Posted by: Tom   2022-07-11 11:51  

#9  And just how do they plan to get the sacrifices out to their floating death platform? Boat? Looking at hours. Helicopter? $$$$$ I worked offshore and heli service is NOT cheap. And you have to pass all those pesky coast guard inspections all the time.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2022-07-11 09:27  

#8  This idea at a time when cruise lines are looking at backruptcy because every time they leave port there's a covid outbreak. LARGE potential legal liabilities. I would be cheaper to fly them to Califonia, except, well, California.
And don't even start with the idea of cruises in the gulf during storm season.
Posted by: ed in texas   2022-07-11 09:27  

#7  STOP HAVING UNPROTECTED SEX

"Stop 'raw doggin'?' Dat be rayciss, brah..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-11 09:24  

#6  
OK lets see ....
12+ miles out to avoid Federal and State jurisdiction, control authority and US/State laws.

So who issues the Medical & Boat accreditations and Insurance coverages for the Abortion ship operating in international waters?

What about the aborted babies, will they feed the sharks or pollute the Gulf of Mexico? Because returning to port with the evidence of a crime will get them arrested.

I guess exporting dead baby body parts to make certain stem cell items for the rich/elite and $500 a bottle skin creams will have some rich vain types be effected also.

Transportation costs estimated to be a round $1,500 due to Diesel fuel shortages & price in addition to the infanticide costs.

Why not just head to Mexico?
OH! that's right, darn Mexico has stringent "Anti-Infanticide" laws, because they support life and responsibility.

Well, then take a bus to a state that allows infanticide to XX weeks or to Canada? Canada is a good Liberal/Socialist run country, it welcomes Infanticide and practically has no restrictions at all.

But here is a real working solution
----> STOP HAVING UNPROTECTED SEX <------.
So how about just using cheap Birth Control measures?
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-07-11 09:21  

#5  I think the part they have not thought thru is that if it's not US territory, then USGOV has no authority to punish anyone who disrupts their operations.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-11 09:11  

#4  Let Dr. Meg raise the cash from her fellow travelers and begin the purchase and/or build.

She'll discover what folks in the real world know as cost overruns, but the original $20M will still be removed from her money-stream for other purposes.

If she then tries to renege, she'll also gain experience regarding contracts.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2022-07-11 09:04  

#3  Panamanian flag? Like what port do you think you are going to be based from? Louisiana? Texas? Florida? Mississippi? Will you have Hurricane insurance?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-07-11 08:19  

#2  If they do get a ship or barge or whatever floating abortion clinic in place, I wonder how long it will take for the vehicle to have an 'accident' and sink.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2022-07-11 07:15  

#1  Who had Abortion Cruises in July?
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2022-07-11 06:03  

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