Looks like there’s a lot of folks on the redneck white trash Washington state beaches celebrating the fourth by fucking Joe Biden.
Not enough to have to worry about Red or even Purple WA, I hope.
Red WA? Don’t sleep on a republican winning the governor’s mansion in NY this fall.
I’m infuriated by the fact that the Biden admin seems to be starting from today on all the legal hypotheticals of what executive power can be used to counter the SCOTUS abortion ruling. The case leaked months ago.
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Chapo discussed how the building abortion clinics on federal land was a dumb idea.
Cliffs?
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:coolbiden:
These types of additional clinics weren’t viable builds before Dobbs due to lack of available providers. They can’t even staff existing clinics apparently.
When you say they couldn’t staff them do you mean they couldn’t find docs to do them? Or other staff? Or both?
They didn’t specify. Apparently whatever staffing they’ve had have been a detriment to expanding access for awhile.
I’m still not sure why it wouldn’t work, because there are now a bunch of abortion clinic staff with no abortions to do.
Just tell planned parenthood they can just run their operations out of a couple of rooms at a VA hospital. Don’t charge them any rent. Offer that in all states where abortions are illegal. EZ game.
Yeah, I don’t think the renowned smoothly running and not politically sensitive VA system is the droid you’re looking for here.
Not sure what other federal hospital apparatus is even in place to accommodate abortion units. Seems like these practical barriers were well understood and settled by the chapos.
Well, the point is that Biden is supposed to be going scorched Earth. Anyone who doesn’t like it can fuck off. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have it in him to actually do this. That seems like the real problem. I haven’t heard the chapo stuff there may well be other issues that aren’t immediately coming to mind.
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I think the point is the VA system is stretched to and past the brittle old bones it’s supposed to cover, and it’s principal focus needs to be on ya know helping out the veterans who suffer as a result of sacrificing physically and mentally to ostensibly keep us safe.
There should be minimal burden to the VA system in this plan that I’ve spent literally 10s thinking about (so there could be some holes). They can just run the PP clinics in outpatient areas after hours when no one is using the space. So abortion time is 8PM to 4AM or whatever.
PP is providing the staff and supplies (which they presumably already have). They don’t have to pay rent. They are using space at a time that it is unused.
Yeah, there are some logistical problems here (getting people to work weird hours, moving shit, etc.), but effect on the VA should be minimal, especially if someone spends more than 10s putting together an actual plan.
Could be. I was expecting Chapo to be on board with creative solutions to providing abortions but they seemed pretty dismissive of it, but maybe they haven’t thought through it clearly. Or perhaps your ten seconds of thought plan might be more logistically challenging after more consideration.
The hole in the plan is the staff would be subject to arrest when they went home.
Ah, someone has thought about this for longer than Melkerson and me.
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Well, maybe, but not based on this. I posted this exact problem in the SC thread maybe a week ago or more. I’ll see if I can find it. At that time when I brought it up someone suggested it couldn’t happen for some reason.
EDIT: Found it. Here are the relevant posts: