You'd be in the minority, I fear. I've talked about it off and on for the past few years, but every time I start to seriously consider it, I realize that I'm not really a winning candidate. I'm too bisexual, too atheist, too female, too liberal, and not willing to lie about who I am to win votes. In a state that has never elected a woman to a statewide office, I'd have a hard enough time being super religious, super straight, super conservative. As I am, and running on a Democratic ticket in a red state, well.... It would amount to wasted time and money.
I've seen people suggesting that they're willing to get into debt to get sterilised while that's still an option; that they're desperate to move to more liberal states or to Canada or Europe; and that if enough people did move out of and/or refused to move into states with restrictive and misogynistic laws that things would have to change.
I used to look forward to having a family with my husband, and now I'm afraid to be pregnant in my state. I've told him no children until we live somewhere that will save me if I'm laying there dying from pregnancy complications. (MS doesn't allow doctors to perform life saving procedures unless the fetal heartbeat has ceased. However doctors can often determine whether the child is viable or not and save the woman hours before the heartbeat ceases. The baby is more valuable than the woman.)
Our plan is to move to a more liberal state after we both graduate next year. I'm very firm on that point. And if all the states start falling, I'm going to Canada or England, with or without him. and I hate this. I hate they've done this - made me afraid of my own country. Made me sometimes hate my husband for being safe in ways that I'm not, purely for being born male. I feel guilty for it, but I can't stop the rage. Fortunately, my husband recognizes my 'dark moods' and considers them the price of living with an 'artist.' I mean. Creative types are supposed to brood, right?
I'd never be able to get all the women in the country on board, but oh how I wish we could pull a modern day Lysistrata - refuse to have intercourse with men until we are given reproductive equality and respect.
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I've seen people suggesting that they're willing to get into debt to get sterilised while that's still an option; that they're desperate to move to more liberal states or to Canada or Europe; and that if enough people did move out of and/or refused to move into states with restrictive and misogynistic laws that things would have to change.
I used to look forward to having a family with my husband, and now I'm afraid to be pregnant in my state. I've told him no children until we live somewhere that will save me if I'm laying there dying from pregnancy complications. (MS doesn't allow doctors to perform life saving procedures unless the fetal heartbeat has ceased. However doctors can often determine whether the child is viable or not and save the woman hours before the heartbeat ceases. The baby is more valuable than the woman.)
Our plan is to move to a more liberal state after we both graduate next year. I'm very firm on that point. And if all the states start falling, I'm going to Canada or England, with or without him. and I hate this. I hate they've done this - made me afraid of my own country. Made me sometimes hate my husband for being safe in ways that I'm not, purely for being born male. I feel guilty for it, but I can't stop the rage. Fortunately, my husband recognizes my 'dark moods' and considers them the price of living with an 'artist.' I mean. Creative types are supposed to brood, right?
I'd never be able to get all the women in the country on board, but oh how I wish we could pull a modern day Lysistrata - refuse to have intercourse with men until we are given reproductive equality and respect.