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Some U.S. students re-think college plans in states with abortion bans
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Anonymous
It’s the reality of forced births and adoptions. |
Anonymous
My daughter will be going to school in VA and registering to vote! And she will have the depo shot before going. Another option is the implant in the arm which may be better tolerated than the IUD. |
Anonymous
| I will not let my children choose a school where abortion would not be available. I'm already planning possible ways to emigrate should there be a strict nationwide ban. I can't raise my kids in a country with so little freedom or common sense. |
Anonymous
| It depends on the state really. Georgia for instance is very purple and could very likely go blue this year, Emory and Georgia Tech are somewhat safe from any blowback from this. |
Anonymous
I wonder, if college girls are forced to give birth and will be giving the kid up, is there any reason to expect them to stop drinking and enjoying college? |
Anonymous
I am sorry if you have suffered. I was also adopted, as are many others. I don't feel any shame. I have loving parents and have never been in contact with my birth mother, nor do I feel a need to find her. I am also strongly pro-choice. I think both of our experiences are anecdotal. |
Anonymous
| Why do privileged people LOVE to center themselves. Legit you would not use your substantial resources to fly your Rice kid to Maryland, or even Canada if necessary? Stop it. Focus on the actual at-risk people. SMH |
Anonymous
What planet are you on? Unwanted pregnancies will be terminated for the most part as they always were. Dangerous or illegal or far away, but terminated all the same |
Anonymous
+ 1 Like my daughter is smart enough to get into Kenyon, but not smart enough to call me and say “Hey Mom, can you fly me home for the weekend? I miss the dog.” … We don’t have a dog. Lots of hysterical panicking on this thread. If your DD is at college out of state, you can bring them home for a visit anytime. |
Anonymous
If it was only liberals who obtained abortions, you might have a point. |
Anonymous
The vast majority of anti-choice people are religious. In fact, according to Pew only 3 religions have a majority of adherents who oppose abortion: Evangelical protestants, Jehovah's Witness, and Mormons. Catholics are basically evenly split. So, many religious do not support outright bans, which makes sense since a vast majority of Americans support abortion rights (And, are not anything close to being your telling "pro-aborts" -- many are pro-life and pro-choice.) https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/views-about-abortion/ Only 11% of atheists want to deny women healthcare. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/religious-family/atheist/views-about-abortion/ Sure, you can make a flimsy argument on a tiny, tiny minority of people, but then you'd be grasping at straws. |
Anonymous
| I don't care how liberal use protection and birth control that would cut out most of the abortion issue by itself. |
Anonymous
Is your daughter so smart that she will somehow sense whether she has an ectopic pregnancy that can't wait for a visit home? My extremely liberal kid when to college in a red state, and I was all for (a) spending time somewhere where your beliefs are in the minority and (b) you can vote and act to change things. But when a state passes laws to endanger my kid's health and safety, there's no shame in starting a career elsewhere. |
Anonymous
I'm someone who aged out of the system and yes, there are many times when I believed it would have been better for my birth mother to have aborted me rather than go through with the pregnancy. But that's what happens when a crack addict who is not all there in the head has a kid. It took a lot of therapy to understand those feelings and deal with them. I still believe that. I'd never wish my childhood life of ANY person. I went into the system fulltime at age 6. Even though I was white with blonde hair & blue eyes, the most desired of all adoptable kids, I was way too damaged to ever be seriously considered adoptable. First of all, I was ancient at 6 years old. Second of all, I had been born addicted to drugs. Thirdly, I had gone into the system once previously due to severe neglect and had been labeled a failure to thrive. My life was bouncing between foster homes and building up so much internal hatred for everyone and everything around me. I was a big ball of hate and rage until age 13 when my new case worker told me that if I kept it up, I'd be dead by 18 and prove everyone who'd said something negative about me right. There was something about her that resonated with me when others had not. She saved me. I got my shit together in school and took the anger management courses I had been assigned seriously (after not taking them seriously the first time). I got some therapy, too, which helped, but definitely not as much as I needed back then. Every damn day of my life from age birth to 20 was a struggle just to survive. It wasn't until age 20 that things started to really turn around for me... I had made my own family through friends, I had places to go to during school breaks, I landed a great job that paid well and allowed me to do my schoolwork during the downtime so I was able to start really saving some money, etc. I mean, my life wasn't great like it is now and I did still struggle, but instead of feeling like I was treading water and the bottom of my lip was halfway underwater, it felt like my whole neck was out of the water and that was the first time I'd ever felt that way. I get so angry when I hear people say "there's always adoption!" because that's a big f#cking lie. If you're not white, perfectly healthy, and under age 1, your chances of getting adopted dwindle each year. I'm here to tell you that what comes after a forced pregnancy is NOT adoption. It's a big ass nightmarish struggle that will break almost all people. |
Anonymous
I think you and others are intentionally being obtuse. It is not about abortion singularly, but about the slippery slope of dismantling a 50 year precedent so easily. The senator from Texas has already said that he wants Brown v Board of Education reversed because it too was based on the same reasoning as Roe. A member of the SCOTUS majority wrote in his opinion that he invites a case regarding the right to contraceptives; gay marriage ; and cunnilingus/felatio to be revisited by the courts. Those were privacy issues decisions as well. Maybe none of those issues are concerning to you because perchance you are white and heterosexual and don’t enjoy oral sex, but they concern and impact a lot of other people in this country. If they succeed down this road, eventually they will get to something that impacts you, but then it will be too late and nobody left willing or able to fight or care about you. |