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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read the other replies, but: Absolutely. I have three daughters. I will not send them to any college in a state that bans, or is on the cusp of banning, abortion. I'd be especially opposed to paying state school tuition in such a state. My girls agree.

Just so you know---there are at least 26 states that you and your girls are opposed to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read the other replies, but: Absolutely. I have three daughters. I will not send them to any college in a state that bans, or is on the cusp of banning, abortion. I'd be especially opposed to paying state school tuition in such a state. My girls agree.

Just so you know---there are at least 26 states that you and your girls are opposed to.

Not PP - but that works for us. DD will probably stay in state anyway (blue state).

[Anonymous]

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.

What specifically are you doing to help prevent an unplanned pregnancy when your adult child is in college? Abstinence only answers not accepted.

[Anonymous]

Plan B is about to be banned in Texas and I’m sure in other places too.

[Anonymous]

all these parents saying it won’t happen to their kid has their head in the sand. Make sure you are abundantly clear with them to come to you if they need an abortion and not to freak out and go find pills online without telling anyone or find some creepy trip to an out of state clinic without telling anyone where the are going. Fact of the matter is many college aged women are sexually active and often want the privacy to make these decisions on their own w/o running to mom and dad to disappoint. They don’t often feel in the moment that they can come to their parents so make it clear and keep reminding them!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I am considering moving us to MD right now for the sake of my daughters. That actually puts a couple more schools in play...and takes a couple off the list

We'll see.

But, I absolutely will not be sending my child into a state where she could die because a doctor refuses to save her from an ectopic pregnancy or sepsis or an incomplete miscarriage.

She can drive or bus it train or fly to gsve those procedures.

No, eptopic pregnancy is an emergency, and the other two you mention women is very ill and vomiting so not easy to travel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, my children are adults who can make their own choices, and I will support them. They think for themselves and they believe abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.
They also happen to know the difference between “effecting” and “affecting.”

Too bad their parent is a frustrated English teacher, who feels superior when he corrects strangers on the internet.

[Anonymous]

No, I told my kid to use a CONDOM!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As far as abortion laws go, that would not be a determining factor since we have the wherewithal to get the necessary medication elsewhere, and I will be fully open with my kids regarding their options. It’s the women without support and resources who will suffer the brunt of those laws.

Well you need to think about it, because these states are passing laws whereby the can prosecute people leaving their state to go get abortions in states in which it is legal. So if you bring your child home to MD for an abortion and then send them back to Texas, Texas can still go after them. That’s how these laws are being written. Argue all you want that it’s unconstitutional, but this Supreme Court won’t care.

[Anonymous]

It's something I talk to my kid about but it's her choice to make.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I don't want my kid to me a mom as an undergraduate. Schools like Washington University are totally out now that Missouri is criminalizing abortions for people who become pregnant in Missouri regardless of where the procedure is preformed.

St Louis is on the border of Illinois....access should remain for any WashU student....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely. We just flat out told our kids no family money would be spent in states that don't support the rights of women or gay people.

That’ll show them!

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

You are all overreacting. OP has been on this grind over Texas for a long time. I didn't give the state's laws a second thought when applying to law school. I couldn't even tell you what its law is. Ectopic pregnancy is an emergency and covered by ERs. Planned parenthood will get the other kids to the right state. If it happened to my DD, which it did not, I would want her to tell me so I could assist and get her wherever she needed to go but chances are she would keep it so local law is irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I don't want my kid to me a mom as an undergraduate. Schools like Washington University are totally out now that Missouri is criminalizing abortions for people who become pregnant in Missouri regardless of where the procedure is preformed.

St Louis is on the border of Illinois....access should remain for any WashU student....

Again, do you not understand that these laws are also criminalizing crossing state lines to get an abortion?