Maybe read the rest of my comment and you would see where I state I also believe in people's freedoms so if they want to have an operation that's not because of a medical situation then allow it, just don't use taxpayer money.

Should be legal for medical purposes that can lead to complications and or death situations, or r#pe. But for just a regular abortion, personally I believe it shouldn't be done after a heartbeat is detected but I am also pro freedom of you own body so allow the operations to be done just don't use taxpayer money. You want it done then you can pay for it out of pocket.

>Before that it's a parasite

What an interesting view of life...

>Maybe someone should show Sellers
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>what a fetus looks like at nine weeks

9 weeks is a bit different then at 24 weeks which the bills just passed.

True on that first part and it's a bit cheaper to live down there if you don't make much and like manufactured homes but I would have to disagree with that second part. Not sure on your experience's and how you have come to that conclusion but visiting down there in the winters and talking with my friends and family that live there, some who are middle to very low income have not had many issues, if not at all. Only issues my family has had that was related to the government was trying to get disability which Florida judges are very hard to convince even with solid evidence because of the amount of people who are trying to get it with little to no issues. Also, I don't have any trans friends just one that's gay and he hasn't had any grips about the area, state or jobs. He keeps trying to get me to come down and work with him which I may. Also, there federal laws that protect people from discrimination in the workplace and hiring environment and Florida is pretty diverse, if there was issue like that, I'd think the younger people would be leaving the state, not moving in from places like Cali, NY and New England. Tampa imo is the place to be in the winter. Then NH in the summer.

Besides the traffic, I-4, and occasional hurricanes, Florida is doing pretty damn well as a state and is making it's way up to the top. Should go down there some time, Tampa is a beautiful diverse area, and many communities are retired northern folks. Met a few from NH and have actually camped at their campgrounds up here and they love it in FL as do a lot of people I know. Nice place to spend summers as long as the red tide isn't flaring up.

Very good and valid points. I went through the Leb school district not too long ago and even though we had decent programs, there were still flaws and things that should be changed or added. I was fortunate enough to be selected to go to the Hartford VT votech school in my junior and senior years but out of the 10 or so classes there, only 2 students from each school in the region can attend. This should be open to any if not all students which would be a stretch due to the lack of teachers, but it brings real world skills of the workplace and trade world to students and gives them the choice to choose a path that they have interest in rather than beat them to death with the college route stick. Learned how to talk to random people with respect, give good handshakes, think outside the box in situations where we may have forgotten a piece of equipment or the weather changed, and learned how to present ourselves properly in the community without being puppets or having sticks up our ass. Also learned a lot about the environment and the practices that we should be taking as both communities and states and the vast inaccuracies the media spreads.

For the sex ed programs, we had sex ed classes in 5th grade which were pretty informative and straight forward, then in 8th grade we had half a year of home ec which included a week of contraceptives and parenting including the dreaded mechanical baby that was a good way to instill the use of contraceptives into our heads. Then another weeklong class in 10th grade which was pretty good also.

Another class we had in both 10th and 11th grade was a few weeks in our government class that had us look into our future careers, a group project into starting a business and finding out what we would need legally for that business and a few other minor things we did but nothing related to preparing us for financial readiness in the workforce via teach us the breakdown of taxes and the different terms, what number to claim for taxes on your wages, etc.

Now for the GAC bill, I agree with the bill to ban that kind of care in the form of procedures or medication to anyone under the age of 18 even with permission of the parents. Young adults, teens and kids are very susceptible to believing anything they are told especially from very 1 sided political parents on both sides. But allowing the opportunity for them or anyone to affect their natural growth and possibility of permeant unreversible changes to their body's is unethical and Stright up wrong. Once they or you are 18, go ahead and do whatever you want as longs as it doesn't affect me, my kids or anyone else lives negatively. We should apply more funding to bring more therapist and phycologists to schools and the communities so anyone can get the mental help they need and maybe realize the effect of certain apps, social medias and fads have on the young population and maybe put more funding to the research behind those effects or limiting them in the schools or the state. There's good reasons TikTok is being looked into and not being banned weather you believe them or not.

Social media and more specifically snapchat at the time when I was in HS definitely had an effect on myself and my friends in HS and I was lucky to not let it and FB control my life and feelings and friendships. Didn't care how many online friends I had, or how many likes I had on IG or how many snaps a day I was getting, we just lived our lives having fun camping, building things like redneck paddle boats or ice shanty's, launching fireworks around the fire, going to the beach or hiking on the many trials around the upper valley.

Sorry in advance for the rant, don't find comments that often I agree with on reddit, and I'm bored at work.

>mental health too is medical and can lead to medical necessity,

Elaborate on that like medical necessity in what way?

You would think that would be common sense but after reading 90% of these comments on op's post, common sense has long left the chat years ago with these folks.

Our I89 bridge over the CT river into Vermont still has not been finished and it has been 5 years, and the repaving they did 2 years ago has already degraded and gone to shit.

>war mongering

Like the current democrats actively supporting and funding a war against Russia leading to a stalemate and nuclear tensions?

I don't know how she has stayed in this long.

>Gas prices are down

In what reality are you living in?

>The money for Ukraine isn't coming from anywhere else other than the previously approved budget for military

Yeah, that's wrong, have you forgot the other bills that have and have not been passed by congress that included funding for Ukraine? Like FEMA relief bill that included 12.3 billion in funding for Ukraine. Some of it was from the mil budget and some were not. Either or it is still money adding to or federal debt and has not shown to have really helped them that much.