Planned Parenthood takes its show on the road

[Shaul]

In order to circumvent abortion restrictions in some states Planned Parenthood has created a mobile unit.

Planned Parenthood mobile clinic will take abortion to red-state borders

 

[Shaul]

I wonder if other providers of controversial products will copy the idea. Suppose gun dealers, tobacco sellers or alcohol vendors followed suit? At least RV sellers would be happy.

 

[Father Heathen]

Will it play music like this?

 

[ChristineM]

In order to circumvent abortion restrictions in some states Planned Parenthood has created a mobile unit.

Planned Parenthood mobile clinic will take abortion to red-state borders

Better than a dirty knitting needle on someone's kitchen table.

 

[Valjean]

I wonder if other providers of controversial products will copy the idea. Suppose gun dealers, tobacco sellers or alcohol vendors followed suit? At least RV sellers would be happy.

Shush! Don't give them ideas....

 

[Father Heathen]

I wonder if other providers of controversial products will copy the idea. Suppose gun dealers, tobacco sellers or alcohol vendors followed suit? At least RV sellers would be happy.

 

[Suave]

In order to circumvent abortion restrictions in some states Planned Parenthood has created a mobile unit.

Planned Parenthood mobile clinic will take abortion to red-state borders

"Planned Parenthood is launching a mobile abortion unit in southern Illinois to help reach out-of-state patients and decrease wait times, as more states ban or severely restrict terminating a pregnancy."

Planned Parenthood launching mobile abortion clinic in southern Illinois (chicagotribune.com)

 

[crossfire]

I wonder if other providers of controversial products will copy the idea. Suppose gun dealers, tobacco sellers or alcohol vendors followed suit? At least RV sellers would be happy.

Doordash will deliver alcohol and tobacco to your door, and there are firearms traders who travel to gun show events. Many cannabis stores will deliver. Heck! Some jurisdictions will even deliver illegal aliens to you.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

I wonder if other providers of controversial products will copy the idea. Suppose gun dealers, tobacco sellers or alcohol vendors followed suit? At least RV sellers would be happy.

Well, it is legal as per state rights, so I don't see the problem.

 

[icehorse]

In order to circumvent abortion restrictions in some states Planned Parenthood has created a mobile unit.

Well done Planned Parenthood !

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

In order to circumvent abortion restrictions in some states Planned Parenthood has created a mobile unit.

Planned Parenthood mobile clinic will take abortion to red-state borders

Good.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I wonder if other providers of controversial products will copy the idea. Suppose gun dealers, tobacco sellers or alcohol vendors followed suit? At least RV sellers would be happy.

It's why riverboat gambling on the Mississippi was a thing.

And gun dealers have had mobile sales arrangements for a long time. They're called "gun shows."

 

[Shaul]

Better than a dirty knitting needle on someone's kitchen table.

What criteria are you using to say that?

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

What criteria are you using to say that?

And what criteria are you using?

 

[Shaul]

Well done Planned Parenthood !

Of course this will increase the risks to the patients and the costs to Planned Parenthood. But, hey, if you want to make an omelette....

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

Of course this will increase the risks to the patients and the costs to Planned Parenthood. But, hey, if you want to make an omelette....

Well, it is still within state rights.

 

[Valjean]

What criteria are you using to say that?

She's using history.

 

[ChristineM]

What criteria are you using to say that?

What happens when abortion is not a legal procedure, it goes underground with typically non hygienic conditions as has happened in the past and will likely happen again in the US

 

[Shaul]

Good.

And suppose a patient has complications that require a hospital? There may not be one in the area. Or the Planned Parenthood personnel may not have admitting privileges to it. And the local area could be financially harmed in several other ways. And who gets to supervise these mobile services? The "home" of the mobile facility or the local area? Maybe the local area is poor and its health inspectors are over stretched. Forcing a poor community to subsidize abortions is not right.

A simple "good" without an analysis of pros and cons is not a wise thing.

 

[MikeF]

I wonder if other providers of controversial products will copy the idea. Suppose gun dealers, tobacco sellers or alcohol vendors followed suit? At least RV sellers would be happy.

Alcohol vendors have long set up permanent establishments on the borders between states and counties with mis-matched laws. When I was in college, that state had a drinking age of 21. Right across the state line was a liquor store as the other state's drinking age was 18 at the time. There were no other business on that state road, either side of the border.