This summer, Reuters reported that bans on abortion were “forcing” students to rethink their college plans. Did their college plans include a lot of unprotected sex? Better to keep your options open, we suppose.
Now CNBC is reporting on Gen Z and how young people are rethinking their college and career plans in a post-Roe America. (We do admire their photo pick of a screaming girl.)
Morgan Smith reports:
Growing up, Lexi McKee-Hemenway and her friends in Sturgis, South Dakota, traded horror stories about people in their neighborhood who wanted an abortion and couldn’t get one. McKee-Hemenway recalls once hearing about a pregnant young woman who couldn’t access an abortion and had a horse kick her in the stomach, hoping it would cause a miscarriage. She died from her injuries.
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McKee-Hemenway says she’s been approached by several students since the start of the school year asking for help with obtaining an abortion — and with each request, McKee-Hemenway says she becomes “a little more convinced” that she does not want to stay in the U.S. after she graduates from college in 2024. “I want to leave the country,” she says.
“There’s nothing more unnerving than seeing the fear in people’s eyes that they will either lose their job or their parents won’t love them anymore if they get an abortion,” she says. “But that’s the reality of how people think and feel about abortion here.”
She died from her injuries? Citation needed.
— Ryan (@alwaysonoffense) December 28, 2022
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For the love of God, please leave
— R C (@JaglRock) December 28, 2022
— Tired Illinoisan (@TiredIllinoisan) December 29, 2022
How can we help them on their way?
— Maze (@pordadow) December 28, 2022
I think this is a wonderful idea. We should each sponsor one kid to their choice of Cuba, Venezuela, or Iran.
— Fetterman/Cortez 2024 (@Glutton4Pnshmnt) December 28, 2022
Please consider Haiti
— Brandon (@BrandonJhappens) December 29, 2022
…where they'll find stricter aborton laws…
— Photogater (@photogater) December 28, 2022
To go where? We have the least strict abortion laws in basically the entire world.
— Cheddarface (@Cheddarface_) December 28, 2022
Yes. Because as everyone knows the rest of the world loves abortions. Bye
— BBG, Esq. (@bmetz131) December 28, 2022
Foolish kids thinking that Europe is so much more progressive when many have much more restrictive abortion laws!
— Rembrandt (@RembrantVan) December 29, 2022
So do that then and let's talk in 24 months
— Hugh_Janus (@Hugh_Janis1) December 28, 2022
God forbid that they can only kill their child up to the 30th or plus week in half the country.
— AlexA (@AlexA73931588) December 28, 2022
— Valvenice2022 (@valvenice2022) December 28, 2022
This is insane. There are probably ten states that have the most liberal abortion laws in the world. More liberal than any European country. Good riddance dumbasses.
— blue (@paf360) December 28, 2022
Good. The less these idiots reproduce the better off the world will be. Oh and Europe has much stricter abortion guidelines.
— dinker48 (@dinker48) December 28, 2022
Go! No restrictions on leaving.
— Acid Reign (@KBHinckley) December 28, 2022
Unless they are headed to North Korea or China I've got some bad news for them.
— Lyle Lanley (@Lyle_Lanley) December 28, 2022
— Taro Tsujimoto (@RCannon74) December 28, 2022
I think you should leave. I mean if you can’t have it your way, I think that’s the right thing to do
— Frank Pasztor (@FrankPasztor1) December 28, 2022
“I have a lot of mixed feelings: rage, fear, disappointment,” McKee-Hemenway says. “Most of all, though, I have a hard time coming to terms with the fact that this is the United States now …. It’s a really scary time to live here.”
If it’s so scary … leave.
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