Actually that brings up a brilliant tangent. Cincinnati has an Argosy floating casino that skirts Ohio gambling laws, so why can we have floating abortion clinics in pro-life states as well? 
They exist on varying scales. Here’s a video of one such system:
Because you have to get local approval.
IIRC (and IANAL) Tribal land falls under the Department of the Interior; depending on the type of land, it’s either jointly held by the feds and the tribe, or a tribal entity (the tribe, one of it’s members, or business ventures.) It’s… complicated.
(also, easily do-able if the tribe in question is on board with it, and the clinics are used for other purposes, like providing health care for tribal community members. I think. )
The floating casinos on the Mississippi are purely licensed by the state. Interstate shipping is certainly under federal law, but docked boats on the river have to follow state laws.
The only federal waters in the area are marked here in red:
Though it should be noted that everything west of Key West is also federal as part of the Key West National Wildlife Refuge and Dry Tortugas National Park.
I assume it would be illegal to build a private business in a wildlife refuge, though. It should be, since you want to minimize boat traffic
Why does it need to be a private business? It can be a public health facility under the control of a federal agency on federal land… er, water… Off the coast of a national park might qualify.
It doesn’t have to be a private business. As said upthread, public health clinics would be a much better solution. The best thing would be for the federal government to step up and pass legislation reinstating Roe and put public facilities anywhere they’re needed. If the government steps up, there is plenty of federal land to use (military bases currently outnumber abortion clinics in all the Gulf coast states)
I presumed it would be a private businesses because putting clinics in federal waters seems like purely a backup for if the federal government failed to step up. If they put clinics on federal land, then offshore facilities aren’t needed
Sure, that’s ideal, but until we have a better senate, that’s not gonna happen.
Perhaps a few homemade submarines would solve the transport problem? After all, the cartels apparently have several in the Gulf already.
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