Posted on 10/17/2008 8:36:23 PM PDT by markomalley
A Dutch nonprofit organization is offering Spanish women free abortions on a boat anchored in international waters off Spain's coast.
The boat, operated by the abortion-rights group Women on Waves, arrived at the port of Valencia Thursday and began carrying out its first abortion procedures today.
Women who are less than 6½ weeks pregnant can board the boat, where they will be provided with free abortion pills under the supervision of a licensed gynecologist, said Rebecca Gomperts, Women on Waves' founder and director.
No surgery will be performed on the yacht.
"Abortion is a normal procedure," Gomperts said of her group's motivation. "By helping these women we are performing a symbolic act. We want to get this out of the realm of criminality and let women decide for themselves."
The drugs used are mifepristone (aka the abortion pill, RU 486, Mifegyn and Mifeprex) and Misoprostol (aka Cytotec, Arthrotec, Oxaprost, Cyprostol, Mibetec, Prostokos or Misotrol). They are used in combination. The first causes pregnancy hormones to stop being secreted; the second (usually taken several days later) causes the physical expulsion of the fetus.
Mifepristone and Misoprostol are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Abortion is illegal but decriminalized in Spain. Spanish women are allowed to get the procedure only in specific situations, including when carrying a baby to term is deemed dangerous to the mother's physical or mental health.
In practice, abortion activists say, thousands of abortions are performed in Spain each year, as psychiatrists will often attest to the procedure's medical necessity.
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Yeah, its a ‘symbolic act’. Nutjob.
“Later on, the Dutch prostitution boat will be pulling up to promote casual sex.”
“The Hate Boat”
Ship of the Damned
The Death Boat...
Soon will be making another run...
This is why the "health exception" to abortion laws is total bullsh*t. The same thing held in California pre-Roe. A whole cottage industry built up of raggedy-ass psychiatrists selling certification of "mental health" reasons for allowing a woman to kill her kid.
It has all the medical validity of those doctors with "offices" at interstate exits selling amphetamine prescriptions to long-haul truck drivers.
A killing ship. I wonder how much blood money they get for each aborted child.
Yeah...”mental health”...
How many has the AMA declared “bipolar” over the last decade?
Why do we never see this thing anchored off the poorest nations on earth?
Obama declared children a “punishment” for such people did he not?
Go ahead, pick any coastal African nation. How about South America? The middle-east?
No, just “the west”.
Spain should declare this an act of war and sink it.
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