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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Washington college in md? What about u Delaware 
Not a safety but oberlin? Kenyon? Grinnell
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OHIO are you kidding no.[/quote]
I don’t understand this thinking even as a very liberal pro-choice woman. If my son goes there and his girlfriend gets pregnant he can help her pay to get to a state that can help her, if that is her choice. Many kids who have enough money from this area to move to OH for college have enough money to avoid the legal BS that exists there now. Thus us an equity issue as well as legal.  For instance, if my daughter goes to Kenyon I’ll buy her a box of plan B and have her keep it in her dorm since they will not have it at the local cvs. Obviously the laws are disgusting in my opinion but why should an affluent kid from dmv avoid the whole slew of college options there if they have the means to avoid their impact personally, and then they can help vote those idiots out of office while they are there.[/quote]

+1 Maryland recently expanded abortion access so it's easy to arrange for a child to come back here for an abortion if desired.  I also think it's short-sided to trash the entire state because of what some legislators did. By teh same reasoning, you should have trashed the US and moved to another country when Trump was elected. [/quote]

It amazes me that people in this day and age don’t know that pregnancies can turn dangerous very quickly and a woman can easily find herself in a crisis and too sick to travel. [/quote]

DP- your statement is true and if I was looking to start a family, I would absolutely factor this in to where we chose to live.  But it’s likely less relevant to a college student where abortion access is more about terminating an unwanted pregnancy.  If the college student does end up with a pregnancy they want to carry to term, they’d probably be looking to move back home anyway, no?

Di y get me wrong, I think what is happening is appalling, but I also wouldn’t discount entire states for college based on this.[/quote]
DP.. to me, I don't want to give money to a state (for public u) that takes away women's rights.

Also, no one  thinks they will need an abortion until they do.  And as a PP stated, sometimes it can be an emergency.  A college girl can stay in college until towards the last trimester. In any case,  it's about the state and its people electing and passing laws that restricts women's rights. Yes, there are people there who are against anti-abortion laws.  But, the majority seem to be fine with this arcane law, "fine" meaning they'd rather have low taxes and conservative values than give women their ability to control their own reproductive system.

The ultimate irony would be if a woman went to a red state like this and majored in Women's Studies.    [/quote]

But would your feelings on this subject dictate where you’d “allow” your kids to go?  It’s one thing if an 18yo comes to that decision themselves, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable pressuring my DCs to take an increasing number of states completely off the table.  And it’s all still fluid- what’s ok today might be a different story next year.[/quote]

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