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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

They better not confide in roommates unless they like prison life

[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 does “pro-abortion” mean? I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion before.

[Anonymous]

Yes, two daughters in college now and I made it very clear to them from the beginning that they wouldn't apply to any schools in red states. DH thought I was crazy at the time but everyone agrees now that was a very wise decision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

First they came for the Jews and I did nothing because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the the X and Y and Z and I did nothing because I wasn’t part of the X, Y or Z groups. Then they came for me and no one was left to save me.

Remember that when you say only the poor women without resources would be affected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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 does “pro-abortion” mean? I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion before.

DP. Abortion is health care. I'm pro-health care, so I'm pro-abortion.

[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.

If the new law gets signed in Louisiana, the repurcussions once an egg is fertilize poses criminal liability, despite whatever necessary medication you think you can get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Birth control pills. But if they did get pregnant, they would't be waiting months to have an abortion.

[Anonymous]

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

not just banned but criminalized

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I told my kid to use a CONDOM!

condoms break

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

First they came for the Jews and I did nothing because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the the X and Y and Z and I did nothing because I wasn’t part of the X, Y or Z groups. Then they came for me and no one was left to save me.

Remember that when you say only the poor women without resources would be affected.

Then they came for the babies....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

How dense are you? These people are coming for the pill, IUDs, the morning after pill, “early” abortions, traveling to get an abortion, receiving abortifacients in the mail. All of these are at risk right now, which we know based on laws that have actually passed, have been proposed, or what politicians have stated as their goals. This is not a drill. This is what’s happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

So you don't think that traveling out of state for an abortion won't be criminalized (it already has).

You don't think BC methods that prevent implantation could be banned (already there)?

So you don't think abortifacients could be banned?

Who is talking about making 3rd trimester abortions legal, unless under extreme circumstances threatening the life of the mother?

[Anonymous]

The late stage abortion straw man…

Ffs, you people never learn

Birth control fails and condoms break.

Honestly, I’m also going to be certain that the closest hospital to any campus my child looks at is NOT run by Catholics. They also refuse life saving procedures and I refuse to let my child die because they don’t “believe” in something

You people are all so damn naive to think that it is all just going to magically work out for YOUR kid

[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.

PP you're responding to. That's right. Good thing there are 20+ that are acceptable to us.