Respected obstetrician raising funds for floating abortion clinic to avoid bans in Gulf sates

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Originally published at: Respected obstetrician raising funds for floating abortion clinic to avoid bans in Gulf sates | Boing Boing

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All fine and dandy until an (R) POTUS comes along and puts an end to it.

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I wonder if the relevant states would control this by putting an end to the transportation to/from the clinic, though. They’re already passing/have passed laws about leaving the state to get an abortion, regulating the boats traveling through state waters to get to the clinic (or just declaring them illegal) seems like an obvious way of shutting it down.

Still, fingers crossed this gets funded and works, soon.

That too.

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Up until Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi required casinos to be floating, either on the gulf or the river. You’d get these massive resorts, like Beau Rivage, floating on barges, that never go anywhere, are attached to the shore, and look like any other building walking up to it. So there is kind of a sick precedent for this in the deep south.

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Worst-Timeline Prediction:

  • state police forces of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida will start trying to create a “navy” to [unconstitutionally] interdict any watercraft ferrying women to the floating clinic.
  • “concerned citizens” in pleasure craft (fitted out with MAGA/Gadsen/Confederate/pirate flags and drunk skippers) with head out to open sea to form a picket line to harass the clinic ship and the patient ferries.
  • accidents/injuries in and among those boats will occur, which the clinic/ferries will be obliged to rescue and treat.
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Interestingly enough this was a concept “floated” by seasteaders. Offshore medical facilities…

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Don’t forget about Texas’ “I’m an Asshole” law which allows anyone to file suit against both those seeking an abortion and those possibly helping (i.e., driving to site, etc.), in the amount of $10,000.00 per judgement.

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That still hasn’t been tested if it involves transportation out of state to where abortion is legal. That is pretty clearly illegal and unconstitutional, but a federal judge actually has to say so first.

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I never thought that Doctors Without Borders would be deployed to treat United States citizens seeking medical assistance (outside of the US).

(Not yet, but the optics of them getting sued over this would be hard to justify to the court of public opinion.)

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Let’s see… Over the years, we’ve seen floating radio stations, floating speakeasies, floating casinos to avoid shore side regulations. Why not floating planned parent hood clinics?

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I never dreamed I’d say, “We should have UN observers in for our elections,” either.

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There were floating planned parenthood sorts of things in ships off the coast of Ireland.

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“Welcome to Vagisland!”

I’d be on board for this, especially if it was a retired war ship.

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You beat me to it. There is a precedent.

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I don’t think they ever actually performed an abortion in one, they were primarily used to smuggle milfepristone and misoprostol into the country.

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