Clinic staff described packed waiting rooms, full parking lots and phones ringing nonstop in the final days before the state’s new law takes effect.
Abortion clinics in Florida say they have been trying to see as many patients as possible before the state’s ban on abortions after six weeks takes effect Wednesday.
In Jacksonville, a clinic called A Woman’s Choice provided around double its usual volume of abortions Monday, according to Amber Gavin, its vice president of advocacy and operations.
The waiting room has been so crowded that patients’ companions were asked to stay in their cars or drop people off to free up space, Gavin said. Parking spaces were also scarce, prompting some patients to park off-site and walk to the clinic.
“Tomorrow is going to look very different,” Kelly Flynn, CEO of A Woman’s Choice, said Tuesday. “A lot of patients will come in for the consult and be told that we can’t see them.”
I love it when my medical procedures are done on a schedule of “squeeze as many in as possible”. What a train wreck.
Not sure how to read this. Are you saying that the abortion clinics putting in the overtime and effort to see as many people before a pretty much outright abortion ban is a train wreck, or that this ban in general causing this insanity is a train wreck?
I’m not blaming the staff for doing what they can - they’re trying their hardest to make the best of a bad situation. But medical procedures are best performed by professionals who are rested and calm, not working overtime/triaging under stress because they’re trying to handle as many patients as possible before the door closes. And yes, the ban that sets the stage for this whole situation is a train wreck. The policymakers have created an unnecessary emergency among other criticisms.
I’m presuming the latter, It’s pretty bad all around.
THIS FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ONLY! Come on down to Wacky Abe’s Clinic and Steakhouse for the ABORTION EXTRAVAGANZA! All fetuses must go! If you’re still pregnant in 30 minutes, your ribeye is free!
At least it should be paternity renounce legal also. Not all men want to be a father…
So… you’re saying because it will be illegal for women to get abortions until after most of them know they’re pregnant, it should be legal for a man to renounce their paternity?
Whatever if it’s abortion legal or illegal, paternity renounce should be legal, men should be fighting for their rights also…
What do you mean “too?” You’re saying men deserve rights and women don’t.
“all Rights matter”
Women deserve rights and men also, if women are fighting for legal abortion men should be fighting for legal renounce of paternity.
How about we work on stopping the thing that kills people first and then work on the money issue?
You do know women die in childbirth every day, right?
Then women should get their tubes tied if they don’t want to die of childbirth. I don’t know if it’s legal but it should be.
Sorry… “if you don’t want to get pregnant right now you should sterilize yourself?” What the fuck?
Termination of Parental Rights is a legal process that is available in some states. Some being the key term.
If the woman is forced to be a mother, then by all means the man is forced to be a father to or pay child support. Men don’t get to fucking ban abortions, and then decide to opt out of caring for that child. Should me get that right? Sure. But women should have the right to an abortion as well. If we’re going to barbaric, might as well be barbaric all around. Hell, make it easier to garnish peoples wages of they neglect paying child support.
I believe you are right if women are forced to be mothers then men should be forced to be fathers but as women are fighting for legal abortion I think it will be fair if there is legal renounce option for men…
I got a vasectomy. They’re quick and easy to perform, covered mostly by insurance (at least in my case), and they’re reversible (unlike tubular ligation).
I believe it’s too late to tell you to not be a simp…
Have you considered not sticking your dick in people you don’t want to impregnate? Or getting your testicles removed? Both are very effective in preventing pregnancy.
I believe it’s better if women get their womb removed as they are the ones who get pregnant, but if they want legal abortion I believe it’s fair to have legal renounce also.
Then keep your semen where it is not impregnating people. Also, vasectomies are a thing.
