Anti-Abortion states and new laws scaring off top women already

[NewJeffCT]

My daughter is now a rising senior and was really interested in Washington University in St. Louis - right outside a city, beautiful campus, excellent academics and a mid-sized school. She also had interest in Emory for much the same reason. Now, Emory is off her list and WashU is not a priority. (We had a visit to WashU scheduled for July...)

I wonder if these wealthy private institutions can use some of their money to help fight the abortion bans? (How about Duke in NC if NC tries an abortion ban...)

https://nypost.com/2019/05/25/scared-students-are-rejecting-colleges-in-states-with-strict-abortion-laws/

One Upper East Side family is sending Washington University in St. Louis a big, fat rejection letter.

On Friday, the governor of Missouri, where the well-respected school is located, signed a bill outlawing abortion after eight weeks.

The legislation was a deal-breaker for Ellen Bender and her daughter, Eliza, a junior at Horace Mann prep school, who planned to visit the school in June.

[xmas74]

1. Wash U is Jesuit, I think.

I do know it's affiliated with the Catholic Church. I was accepted back in the day but couldn't afford it.

No way they will speak against the ban. It goes against their beliefs.

[NewJeffCT]

3. Wash U has no religious affiliation

And, their hospital is the Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

Georgetown in DC is a Jesuit school and they're known for being pretty progressive.

[xmas74]

10. SLU is Jesuit.

I always forget which one is.

And Children's is also part of Wash U. Unfortunately I've spent time watching a friend die at Barnes.

[MineralMan]

2. Use economic pressure. It works.

Take away the money from places that do business in those backward states. Let those companies and organizations carry that message to their state governments.

[NewJeffCT]

4. Emory and WashU are big economic engines

Emory and their affiliated hospital generate $5.6 billion/year in revenue and WashU is $3.5 billion, and employ tens of thousands each.

[Lars39]

5. This is what they want anyway...

all male staff.

[NewJeffCT]

6. WashU is 53% female overall

undergraduate at Emory is 59% female, as is the faculty there.

[Lars39]

7. Good numbers, but doesn't mean they couldn't

go down in the future.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. If she's really wedded to Washington University, there's an abortion clinic literally across the

river in Granite City.

[NewJeffCT]

9. It won't help if it's similar to Georgia

where they will penalize women that leave the state to have abortions and then come back.

And, it's not just about abortion, it's about being in a state that doesn't treat women as having fewer rights than a dead body and being in a state where rape and sexual assault are taken seriously.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. She's moving to the state? My kids keep their home state residence, even when schooling abroad.

[NewJeffCT]

14. I don't know how it works

but, the law in Georgia said that if you leave Georgia to get an abortion and come back, you can get up to 10 years for conspiracy. Does it specify how a Georgia resident is defined? If a student at Emory takes extra classes over the summer, is she considered a resident for having lived there for 11 months of the year?

[TheBlackAdder]

12. Have her check out KCL in London or Univ. of Edinburgh or Glasgow. $25K a year and top schools.

[NewJeffCT]

13. She has some interest in going to school in the UK

and, one of the reasons she liked WashU was that they have a partnership with the Globe Theater in the UK so students could spend a semester or year (forget which) working and learning there.

I'm also asking her to check out the University of Toronto in Canada - excellent academics and in a great city in Toronto, and another campus nearby in Mississauga (never realized there was a city of over 800,000 right next to Toronto)