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05/05/2022 22:39

Subject: Do you consider state laws/health care access effecting your child when selecting college?

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Anonymous wrote:I guess I am an outlier, but not planning on my kid getting pregnant at college. But I'm in full support of banning abortion after 15 weeks- I have trouble how parents feel otherwise. You KNOW what this fetus becomes. At 15 weeks we know enough that the fetus is capable of feeling, so really don't understand how people can be pro-abortion at this point. Totally understand f-ups happen and the women shouldn't bear the brunt of it for life if they aren't ready but 15 weeks is plenty of time to stop things before it turns into a human that feels pain.

Oh yes, you aren’t planning on it, unlike all those other parents who WERE planning on their daughters getting pregnant in college. I guess my best friend from high school was planning on getting attacked and raped at 4pm by a random stranger with a knife in an alley next to her dorm, but YOUR daughter is making no such plans so she should be fine.

Again, I don't quite get this. If she were raped, she would take the morning after pill. If her birth control pills failed she would get an early abortion. If early abortion is banned outright, I will take her elsewhere. There are a lot of options between regulating abortion and having 3rd trimester abortions legal. I mean seriously, how can any parent of a child support it? I honestly and sincerely dont see it. There will always be plenty of options for early abortions in the US but honestly its just easiest to put the girls on the pill or IUD, they are headed there anyway realistically. Who among us is still practicing natural family planning these days?

This is such bad faith framing. Nobody gets 3rd trimester abortions without an extremely good reason, such as finding out that the fetus is non-viable. This information is easily ascertainable. People only bring up their trimester elective abortions when they want to engage in a debate on the basis of emotion rather than facts. But as long as this is the argument you want to have, I, the parent of three beloved children, find it abhorrent and unconscionable that you think the government should force women to remain pregnant with non-viable children, to suffer for months, risk permanent injury through pregnancy and childbirth, and then to hold their babies as they suffer and die painfully shortly after birth. Those are the people getting third trimester abortions. You are a monster.

So I almost died with my first child. I was very healthy and my pregnancy was progressing when boom. I was diagnosed with a rare disease of pregnancy and fortunately I lived in an area where i could access excellent emergency acute care and a top level NICU. The difference for me and my preemie was access to health care. People in other parts of the US without the same access to health care. One of my kids has a serious chronic medical condition. It has affected how we travel. It is risky traveling to places without ready access to medical care. We’ve had things go wrong and being far from good health care in an emergency is scary and stressful. We are discussing these issues with our kids because it is both a quality of life issue and a health and safety issue. We’ve experienced that first hand and think it is irresponsible to not at least think about and discuss it.

Ok but all if that is irrelevant-your still going to get the same xlnt care for yourself and a premie in Texas.

And if the premie died? Now you also have to worry that someone will think it was an abortion and you are fighting a legal battle in addition to grieving. No way in hell would I want to be living in TX while having a difficult pregnancy (or at any time)