KatherineI
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I know a lot of people never leave the area that they've been raised in, but in my 30 years, I've lived all over the country. I've spent the last 5.5 years in Seattle, where my husband has been stationed. I've usually only ever had curiosity and excitement about the next place we go. But right now, I'm more scared than anything and I'm not sure what to do about it.
Hubs is in the process of getting out of the Navy (it's a loooong story) and just yesterday accepted a job offer in the Phoenix area of Arizona. We could be there as early as late July.
The reason I'm scared is because of the extreme laws that have recently been passed against women in AZ. Apparently, now a woman is pregnant 2 weeks before conception! I mean, that's just crazy! They want to allow employers to fire women for using birth control simply for preventing pregnancy. I mean, I was born almost a decade after Roe v. Wade, I don't know what it's like to have my reproductive decisions made for me. I seriously don't understand what gives lawmakers feel as though they have the right to make life-altering decisions for WOMEN (no repercussions for the men that I've seen, stupid double standard) that they don't even know?
So now the more I look into things down there, the more I'm freaking out about moving there. I'm a Feminist, but I'm not the stereotypical one, so the idea of getting down there and then suddenly not being able to have access to birth control freaks me out. Of being treated like a second-class citizen, of my daughter being treated as though she's a second-class citizen simply because she has ovaries, is freaking me out. Now I'm balking at the idea of moving there when I was so excited.
I'm just being crazy, aren't I?
Hubs is in the process of getting out of the Navy (it's a loooong story) and just yesterday accepted a job offer in the Phoenix area of Arizona. We could be there as early as late July.
The reason I'm scared is because of the extreme laws that have recently been passed against women in AZ. Apparently, now a woman is pregnant 2 weeks before conception! I mean, that's just crazy! They want to allow employers to fire women for using birth control simply for preventing pregnancy. I mean, I was born almost a decade after Roe v. Wade, I don't know what it's like to have my reproductive decisions made for me. I seriously don't understand what gives lawmakers feel as though they have the right to make life-altering decisions for WOMEN (no repercussions for the men that I've seen, stupid double standard) that they don't even know?
So now the more I look into things down there, the more I'm freaking out about moving there. I'm a Feminist, but I'm not the stereotypical one, so the idea of getting down there and then suddenly not being able to have access to birth control freaks me out. Of being treated like a second-class citizen, of my daughter being treated as though she's a second-class citizen simply because she has ovaries, is freaking me out. Now I'm balking at the idea of moving there when I was so excited.
I'm just being crazy, aren't I?