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How many women will pack up and move to a Free state?
Cerridwen
(13,260 posts)samnsara
(17,635 posts)..with a passel of kids.
and I am forever thankful for that
Cerridwen
(13,260 posts)How things have changed.
samnsara
(17,635 posts)...and only 2 hours from the Canadian border...
Deuxcents
(16,330 posts)Ive thought about it several times but where to go?
samnsara
(17,635 posts)...cost of living sky high but you pay for what you get....
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,699 posts)Especially with DeSantis at the helm.
Deuxcents
(16,330 posts)Since a few months ago, Ive looked around n thought of selling everything..pack up me n my kitty and get out of here. My mom was born here in the 20s n I have so much family here but..even at 75..I want a change as Im not dead yet. These midterms will be important n in the meantime, Ill do some homework. No rash decisions at this point but gonna seriously think about it.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,699 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,393 posts)I assume the younger people here in the US are now considering going elsewhere as well.
Timeflyer
(2,002 posts)And how many businesses will not locate in a forced-birth state? And yeah, planning to vacate Florida for a free, sane state. Tired of fighting the Trumpuglicans and DeathSatan enablers.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)I can't menstruate. But I'm a transgender woman and thats enough for them to execute me
Deuxcents
(16,330 posts)tirebiter
(2,539 posts)Can it be more obvious?
The states largest abortion rights advocates Planned Parenthood of California and NARAL Pro-Choice California have been doing more than preparing legislatively for potentially tens of thousands of patients to come to California. Planned Parenthood is expanding clinics, hiring and training more staff and beefing up its abortion funds, which provide money to people seeking care.
So is Access Reproductive Justice, a statewide organization that provides funds to patients to access abortion care in California.
We have the infrastructure in place already, said Jessica Pinckney, executive director of Access Reproductive Justice. We know how to get people the support they need. We know how to get people on planes, we know how to get them in hotel rooms.
But a challenge awaits: Its difficult to prepare for what happens next when the scale of the potential influx is unknown.
The Guttmacher Institute, a think tank that researches reproductive health, said in a recent report that the number of out-of-state women of childbearing age who would find their nearest clinic in California if Roe were overturned would increase from 46,000 now to 1.4 million.
The report, however, doesnt predict how many of those people would come to California. Or where they might go instead. Or how they would get there. Nearby Arizona conducts around 13,000 abortions a year. Would those patients come to California? It is a question that few can answer.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Still legal abortion, legal MJ and LOTS of fresh water.
Abortion is going to stay legal here, IMO.