New Handbook for a Post-Roe America by Robin Marty

New Handbook for a Post-Roe America by Robin Marty

Author:Robin Marty [Robin Marty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: abortion;women's rights;reproductive rights; roe v. wade; planned parenthood; family planning
ISBN: 9781644210598
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2021-02-06T18:00:00+00:00


If you have concerns about any of the above, consider a different way to help, including renting out the space now and giving the proceeds to a local support group to allow them to rent hotel rooms more easily.

Thinking Big. Really Big.

Of course, in an ideal world, we could put the infrastructure in place to offer all sorts of assistance to people who need to travel for abortion care. Much as abortion opponents have purchased properties adjacent to abortion clinics in order to set up their crisis pregnancy centers, with enough financial backing practical support groups could purchase buildings that are strategically placed for maximum impact—perhaps even former abortion clinics themselves.

These “abortion hostels” would offer office space for the organization to work out of, as well as a few bedrooms to be used by patients in need. Patients could leave their children in an open common area to be watched by volunteers while they are at the clinics. Finally, a kitchen area would offer a centralized place to prepare meals for patients either staying in the hostel or nearby to help them reduce extraneous costs associated with the procedure.

“Abortion hostels” could also exist in cities where there is no clinic to serve as a gathering point for patients out in the vast landscape of states that will no longer have legal abortion. A hostel in Little Rock, for example, could act as a place for those in surrounding areas to join up and commute together to a clinic in Illinois, with the hostel hosting a passenger van or bus for patients, reducing travel costs like gas or bus tickets and providing the opportunity for patients to travel through the night in order to be at the clinic early for a procedure.

Even faster, obviously, would be airlifts for those who need to cross a large number of states to access care—especially those reaching later gestations or with medical complications. The idea of privately flying patients may seem extreme, but it’s not completely without precedent. Already there are groups like Air Care Alliance (http://www.aircarealliance.org/directory-groups) that organize volunteer pilots who have their own personal aircrafts and are willing to donate their time to transport people who require medical care. There is no reason not to believe there are pilots who would be happy to help abortion patients in need if someone just reached out to them.

Obviously vans, charter buses, hostels, airlifts, and the like are major expenses (and in some cases probably outright pipe dreams) and would require massive fund-raising and a large amount of coordination between local and national volunteers. But it is a network that has to exist in a post-Roe era, and it is our job to do everything we can to be sure that those already building this network have the resources they need to complete it.



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