Some U.S. students re-think college plans in states with abortion bans

[Anonymous]

"The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in June to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide has some students rethinking their higher education plans as states rush to ban or curtail abortion, according to interviews with 20 students and college advisers across the country.

For some students, the restrictions raise fears that they won't be able to get an abortion if they need one or that they will face discrimination for gender differences. Others said they worried about facing racial prejudice or being politically ostracized.

"I'm only in high school right now, and I'm still finding out who I am," said Samira Murad, 17, who will be a senior this fall at Stuyvesant High School in New York. "I don't want to move somewhere I can't be myself because of laws put in place."

It is too soon to determine whether such concerns will affect admissions in a measurable way, and evidence from other recent divisive state laws suggests there may be little overall impact.

But in the wake of Roe's overturn, college counselors said abortion has figured prominently in many conversations with clients, with some going as far as nixing their dream schools."

Kristen Willmott, a counselor with Top Tier Admissions in Massachusetts, said students she works with have told her they are taking some top schools in Texas, Florida and Tennessee off their application lists due to their restrictive abortion laws.

Alexis Prisco, who is entering her senior year at Eastern Technical High School in Maryland, had planned to apply to her parents' alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri."

https://news.yahoo.com/u-students-think-college-plans-101417689.html

[Anonymous]

How many abortions are these girls trying to get in the next four years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many abortions are these girls trying to get in the next four years?

How stupid are you?

[Anonymous]

Makes sense. It is not that anyone ever plans to get an abortion.

It is the degrading reality that rights held by women for 50 years were stripped away and they are now lesser citizens of the state with less rights over their own healthcare decisions than men. It's an insidious environment.

[Anonymous]

Texas has always been toxic but Rice has always been a great university. I wish my kid was a senior this year because it's one of her top choices.

[Anonymous]

Who cares if they decide not to go to College X, Y, Z. They probably don’t need another liberal brainwashed anyways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Texas has always been toxic but Rice has always been a great university. I wish my kid was a senior this year because it's one of her top choices.

Suit yourself. Turning back the clock 50 years on rights is a lot more than "toxic". It is a major and significant assualt on rights and it requires action.

[Anonymous]

I get it. I wouldn't want my kid paying a single cent of sales tax or whatever to a state that willingly and gleefully stripped people of their rights. Even if my kid never needed abortion services themselves, or was not impacted by LGBTQ policies, or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares if they decide not to go to College X, Y, Z. They probably don’t need another liberal brainwashed anyways.

Have a dozen babies if you choose but keep your forced births claws off our daughters.

[Anonymous]

As a woman and a mom of girls, I get it. But isn't this also kinda what men want? If abortion laws keep girls out of their schools, more seats for them.

But yeah I won't send my kids to a red state.

[Anonymous]

It's a matter of principle and personal safety for us as a non-white international family.

Neither DS not DD will go to a deeply conservative, racist/xenophobic state. And that was before recent developments. There are plenty of more progressive locations in which to spend our fortune!

Vote with your wallet.

[Anonymous]

Maybe we'd be better off sending our girls to the schools we want - including red states - but getting them all IUDs first. Assuming those remain available.

[Anonymous]

Sounds wise. Too many people think the universities are isolated from the areas that surround it. In reality, when things go wrong, your student will probably be interacting with the greater community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds wise. Too many people think the universities are isolated from the areas that surround it. In reality, when things go wrong, your student will probably be interacting with the greater community.

+1. Today it’s abortion. Tomorrow it’s lgbt rights, rolling back race and sex discrimination laws. You can’t trust these state governments to keep you safe…plus the gun violence…no way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe we'd be better off sending our girls to the schools we want - including red states - but getting them all IUDs first. Assuming those remain available.

the fact that we even have to worry that IUDs might be criminalized is absolute insanity