Those with college bound kids - reproductive freedom

[JustAnotherGen]

Are you starting to push your teens to select Reproductive Freedom states in their University search?

Was at a get together yesterday with a couple with three children (in NJ) and they are making their oldest take Alabama and Ole Miss off of her list.

She's now sticking to Illinois, NY and at home in NJ.

We may not be able to get businesses to exit - but we could kill their college towns and University/College ratings if we withhold our best minds.

Her mom is a history teacher and dad in pharma - they've had it with this bullshit.

[Hekate]

1. I'd do that too. I applaud what they are doing.

[PittBlue]

2. What a brilliant idea.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

3. My daughters are both out of college now

I would encourage my daughters to choose a college in a Reproductive Freedom state, but I wouldn't mandate it. So long as they understand the risk they're taking, I wouldn't be willing to limit their collegiate choices that way. I can understand the sentiment, just not something I would do personally.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. Her parents are afraid

If she is sexually assaulted - what happens.

Can she take birth control there?

Could they send her with morning after pills just in case?

Will they be outlawed?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

10. Yes

as I said, I understand the sentiment completely.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

4. I'm grateful that my son will be starting university here in CA in the fall.

We have a lot of work to do to secure reproductive rights nationwide.

[MadameButterfly]

5. my fear is that the exodus of reasonable people form red and purple states

will turn the redder while the number of representatives from said states will remain fixed for 10 years. We can't change the gerrymandered swing state legislatures blue if we leave. We can't get Beto elected in Texas if we leave.

I'm not saying anyone deserves to be subjected to their laws, I'm just concern about how we turn this around if we all react logically.

[Pobeka]

6. I believe this is whats going on -- GOP playing the long game.

If you look at the demographics, they are not good in the long run for the GOP.

So, how do they maintain control of the Senate, which has proven incredibily successful at blocking the progressive agenda?

One way -- is to drive blue voters out of red/purple states by passing the most insane laws possible.

It is a long game, will take time, but they are good at playing the long game.

Like you say, how to fight back is the problem. I don't wish lack of health care for any woman, that is very personal and real.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. I really probed this couple

In a worst case scenario - her dad said:

Someone else's daughter can go to jail. Not my kid.

He sounded like my dad when West Point tried to recruit me after the Tail Hook incident. Back then? Let someone else's daughter take the risk. He was a Former Military Officer - one of the first green berets. Same guy was ready to send my brother to Canada at the start of the Gulf War. He saw a lot of shit in the Army as a black man

[Efilroft Sul]

7. I am so glad my college-bound son is not going to my West Virginia alma mater.

He chose to pursue his studies in a blue state. He and I are of like mind that my old school and the state earned our scorn.

[Ishoutandscream2]

11. I have two graduates, both without student loans

Third is working in state here in Texas. Expense is always looked at. Luckily, my oldest moved with her husband and bought a house in Oregon. My other daughter is married, pregnant, and probably won't leave Texas. My son is the one still working on his degree.