"Cruises were priced similarly to assisted living centers and more efficacious"

Re:"Cruises were priced similarly to assisted living centers... by justincormack on Sunday June 02, 2013 @07:02AM (#5808039)

And there was a ship moored off Ireland performing abortions at one point.

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Re:"Cruises were priced similarly to assisted living centers... by Someone on Sunday June 02, 2013 @12:28PM (#5809054)

That, in at least one case (and, AFAIK, all cases) wasn't commercial, but ideological: http://www.womenonwaves.org/en/page/769/in-collection/2582/i...

Also, I would not call that surgery.

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Re:"Cruises were priced similarly to assisted living centers... by rdl on Sunday June 02, 2013 @12:47PM (#5809146)

Better example is something like the USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy (or really any big surface combatant in the USN); they can do real surgery.

I'd argue that Comfort and Mercy could do more good for US national security at sea, combined with LPD/LPH for cargo transport and personnel, than any other surface ships in the US fleet -- humanitarian missions probably improve security more than anything but the submarine nuclear deterrent.

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