The best time to leave the south is now. The next best time to leave the south is as soon as you can.
If it doesn’t look financially possible for you, my heart goes out to you.
I have been thinking this ever since I heard about the abortion ban…
I wonder how quickly the rules would change if the states with these laws lost 50% of their women in a year from them moving out.
Now, I am not an American, I don’t know how easy/dificult it would be to move states, I also realize that plenty of women do support the ban, I am just wondering how the states would react to such a huge loss of women due to this.
They would get more draconian, while also solidifying control of the state by the facists.
So, no downsides from the GOP perspective.
This is an issue in my home state, they keep crying about brain drain, all the most talented young people are moving away, and what could they do to get them to stay?
Then they go and do some GOP boomer bullshit and blame the young people for their problems.
It’s weird watching it happen to whole states. Back when I was a kid I watched the folks just a little older than me all leave my shit town. The old people bitched because there was no one to do the shit work at the plant anymore. But they opposed anything that would make the town attractive for younger adults to stay. So the only ones that did were the ones in too much poverty to leave and the ones making meth to sell to those people.
They voted to keep the county dry. They voted no to bars with private memberships. No jobs except for the gas station, waiting tables, or breaking your body at the plant for minimum wage. Any social activities got run out of town by the churches (even the skate park). All they had for teens was to sit in a field and get drunk or do drugs. But why the hell is everyone leaving?!?
Entire states are doing the same shit now.
It’s a particular type of vocal idiot.
I’ve sat in at Union meetings where for the first half hour or so two guys would bitch and bitch about over time, how they’re not hiring anyone and working us to the bone, and without taking a breath, bitch about letting work release program guys do any work at all.
No one wanted the fucking jobs. They had to go to guys still in prison to fill those slots and these two idiots all but demanded that they be sent back to prison.
These people aren’t ok with anybody having anything until they get theirs, and once they do, they want no one else to have anything.
Probably as hard as it would be to change cities where you live. Maybe a little more expensive depending on how far you’re going and how much you want to bring with you. Gotta find a job, place to live, and move all the shit you want to move. If you’re bringing furniture across the country it would be cheaper to set it on fire and buy new stuff.
Or just move to Georgia of NC, which are becoming more blue and still have southern charm.
Well, that was fast. Less than 3 business days since the ruling and the state’s flagship hospital has stopped doing IVF.
Obvious affect from a terrible dumb decision. I can’t wait for the baby to be charged for murder for engulfing another embryo in womb. Or for twins to claim to be the same person since they were one embryo at one point…
Or a dude getting a 50,000 year prison sentence for jizzing into a tissue and killing millions of potential babies.
Good idea but wrong gender to prosecute
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lol this is about women
That’s one of the debates in Legally Blond!
Every Sperm is Sacred! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk
I feel that people seem to have forgotten how insane this stuff is.
They would prosecute the mother for manslaughter.
Welcome to the stone age morons. Keep voting for stupid fucks and this is what you’ll keep getting.
I imagine Alabama women will still manage to get IVF since it’s already a luxury, that money will just go to another state instead of staying in the state. Dumb.
They should wheel the tanks of frozen embryos to the floor of the Alabama House and go “Welp, you wanted them “saved” so bad, you do it.” and walk the fuck out.
It’s fire stations right? There were those laws that let you abandon children at fire stations without repercussions.
Either that, or just roll 'em to the closest nunnery. They consider every one sacred, they can take care of it.
I feel like southern states are about to see a sharp decline in middle class births. For one thing, the middle class is just disappearing. Secondly, these are the folks most impacted by these backwards policies. Rich people can do whatever they want wherever they want with regards to having or aborting pregnancies. Cynical take, but poor people will keep popping out kids at an Idiocracy-like rate regardless of policy (and why they keep voting for these politicians). So it’s possible the South is going to slide into a medieval-style class system where you’re either the wealthy “owning” class, or the poor “renting” class. It could be argued that Mississippi is already pretty close to this.
I love it when random people insinuate poor people are stupid and then blame them for their own suffering. And also that poor people aren’t impacted by laws governing fertility rights? Poor people can still need IVF, that is not a class specific issue.
I feel they were going for under-educated in their take. Being intelligent but lacking access to knowledge starts someone at a severe disadvantage, and as libraries fall, phones cost $1000 plus the plan, and financial support for low income internet is gone, their concerns become more valid.
popping out kids at an idiocracy-like rate
They’re voting for their own oppression. What would you like to call it? Poor people can’t even afford IVF.
