Noting that some women and girls have to travel 300 miles to terminate their preborn children, Oregon House Speaker Dan Rayfield (D) has commissioned a group to look into making abortion more available throughout the state. Lois Anderson of Oregon Right to Life tells AFN one of the recommendations for accomplishing that involves mobile clinics.
"It does specifically talk about implementing a regionally diverse pilot program for federally qualified health centers," she details about the proposal. "That has the flexibility to permit the use of mobile clinics or other temporary or transitional features."
That could also include having college medical centers dispense abortion-inducing medications and emergency contraception, and the state would match federal funds to make it happen. Meanwhile, Anderson argues that state ought to instead improve access to real healthcare.
"What happens when and if this mobile unit comes through and there are complications from the abortion procedure," she wonders. "Are they going to be there to take care of them? Highly doubtful."
Oregon, one of America's most pro-abortion states according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research, could see a 234% increase in abortions with women from Idaho and other conservative states potentially traveling there to terminate the lives of their preborn children.
The work group – which includes representatives from Planned Parenthood, Oregon ACLU, Oregon Nurses Association, and transgender rights groups – also wants to use various legal tools to crackdown down on pro-lifers and crisis pregnancy centers, and they would reportedly utilize state statutes and medical regulations to offer greater protections for gender-affirming care, including sex changes. That includes privacy protections for doctors serving transgender patients.
