I'm slowly starting to lose my shit over my own home state. Mississippi has a new amendment to the State constitution coming up for vote, over fucking personhood. If it passes, any fertilized egg and anything any stage past that is granted personhood. It renders birth control illegal, and women who miscarry are eligible for manslaughter charges if it's accidental, murder charges if it's intentional
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Everyone knows abstinence doesn't work, that people have sex after all. So obviously that sex can then lead to a pregnancy. If you're not having sex, you're preventing babies. And if you prevent babies, God cries.
It's not quite that ridiculous, but it's not far from it. Currently the targets are the morning-after pill, hormonal birth control pills, shots, patches, etc. Condoms won't be far behind. Anything that prevents an egg from becoming fertilized, anything that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching, or anything that removes a fertilized egg is murder.
We're staying because NC has a great public university system. Also because we love our state. Like I love my great-uncles who still call Brazil nuts...well, you know. Like you love the dog that eats your favorite shoes. Like I love the damn red clay that stains every pair of white socks I own.
It's tough to love a place, and hate hate hate the people who are trying to ruin it.
That also brings to mind more totalitarian non-American states, such as those in the Middle East where women are not permitted to leave the state, if they're even permitted to leave their house without a male escort..
I just wonder exactly what state would be the perfect state. Everywhere we go, there's something wrong or messed up in the system. Moving away from your current troubles to new and unknown troubles isn't helpful. It's a bit of a devil you know situation.
Sure, OK is kind of hell as far as medical stuff goes, as I'm learning the hard way, but it's not as bad as I've heard. MI was better, but I also had insurance then, so who knows what it would be like for me now.
When I move, and I will, it's because I want to move. I'm not being chased out or running away. I'm running to a chance to attain my career goals, but I won't be leaving until I'm on solid footing to do so. OK has been hell on Earth, but it's also become a home away from home. I have a strange support system of friends here, and I've found family down in Texas that I would never have met if I'd not moved out here.
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It's not quite that ridiculous, but it's not far from it. Currently the targets are the morning-after pill, hormonal birth control pills, shots, patches, etc. Condoms won't be far behind. Anything that prevents an egg from becoming fertilized, anything that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching, or anything that removes a fertilized egg is murder.
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We're staying because NC has a great public university system. Also because we love our state. Like I love my great-uncles who still call Brazil nuts...well, you know. Like you love the dog that eats your favorite shoes. Like I love the damn red clay that stains every pair of white socks I own.
It's tough to love a place, and hate hate hate the people who are trying to ruin it.
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Sure, OK is kind of hell as far as medical stuff goes, as I'm learning the hard way, but it's not as bad as I've heard. MI was better, but I also had insurance then, so who knows what it would be like for me now.
When I move, and I will, it's because I want to move. I'm not being chased out or running away. I'm running to a chance to attain my career goals, but I won't be leaving until I'm on solid footing to do so. OK has been hell on Earth, but it's also become a home away from home. I have a strange support system of friends here, and I've found family down in Texas that I would never have met if I'd not moved out here.
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