AfterRoe v Wadewas overturned , people across the USA have been looking for alternative options should they need an abortion . Many states still allow for legal miscarriage , and Canada has expressed willingness to open up its borders . One medico has an even more revolutionary glide slope – a float abortion clinic that moves through Union H2O , thus escaping country laws that ban abortions .
That is exactly the programme , and the non - profit Protecting Reproductive Rights Of Women Endangered by State Statutes ( PRROWESS ) is presently in the fundraising microscope stage .
“ There ’s been an assault on reproductive rightfield in our body politic and I ’m a lifelong counsel for procreative wellness and choice . We have to create options and be thoughtful and creative to help the great unwashed in restrictive state get the wellness care they deserve , ” articulate Dr Meg Autry , gynaecologist and professor at the University of California San Francisco , in a statement toThe Associated Press .
harmonise to the PRROWESS web site , those on the southern coast in restrictive states such as Texas and Alabama would be nearer to the boat than a potential nation - hold fast miscarriage clinic in a legal United States Department of State , and the fact the boat would reside in Union waters would all them to do any procedures the patients ask .
Alongside surgical abortions up to 14 weeks , the clinicwould also provideSTI examination and discussion , and prophylactic service that are painfully lacking in some US land , treating up to 20 patients day by day .
So , is it something that could actually work ? Technically , there is nothing break the team from doing so . The US Union government shares legal power over coastal waters , call “ state body of water ” , butonly up to 3 marine milesoff the coast before the water become Union waters ( exclude Texas and Florida , which have 9 marine miles of jurisdiction ) .
Thespecial maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United Statesstates that any bodily function on the high seas must follow federal natural law and not state jurisprudence , though .
However , rules can get slightly murky , as nation like California have inflict state law on vessel that primarily work in their res publica – but these were Labor Department laws and not tied to " condemnable natural process " as an miscarriage clinic would be describe by restrictive states .
Therefore , all PRROWESS penury is the financial backing and the means to channelize patients to the gravy holder , which they are still work on .
