A South Carolina teacher has declared that she will not have children while Donald Trump is president.
Kate Medlin, 31, posted a TikTok last week after it looked like Trump would win the election, saying she and her fiance decided they wouldn’t have kids for the next four years, “especially in the state we’re in.” now”.
However, the preschool teacher added that when Trump leaves office, she will be almost 36, making her a high-risk geriatric pregnancy, meaning children will “probably never happen to me.”
Medlin said in her video: “Last night, the conversation my fiancé and I had before we went to bed was that if this happens, we won’t have children.” At least not in the next four years. “We definitely can’t have them in the state we live in now.”
The teacher never mentioned abortion and said in subsequent posts that she was not talking specifically about the right to choose, but rather was commenting on the broader issue of women’s health care.
However, in her original video she said that she and her husband could consider moving to Maine, Vermont or another “protected” state.
“But even then, who can say what will happen?” he added.
Currently, abortion after six weeks is prohibited in South Carolina.
Preschool teacher Kate Medlin said she and her partner will not have children under President Donald Trump.
There are exceptions in cases of rape, incest, medical emergencies, and fatal fetal anomalies. In these cases, abortion is allowed up to 12 weeks.
In Maine, abortion is protected by state law until viability (approximately 22 to 24 weeks of pregnancy) and in Vermont there is no limit.
Trump has said he would not impose a federal abortion ban, leaving decisions up to the states, but he has repeatedly boasted and taken responsibility for overturning Roe v. Wade, which provided federal protections for abortion.
Later on her TikTok, Medlin also spoke about LGBTQ+ rights and gun violence in schools.
She said: ‘Waking up to text messages between me and my LGBTQ+ friends and not knowing what the world will be like for them either.
‘And then when I got to school this morning and realized that someone might want to put a gun in my hand to protect (the students)… I teach two and three year olds and that’s the world in the one they are growing.
“So I hope you voted and I hope you knew what you did when you voted.”
The video has been viewed more than 337,000 times and women flocked to the comments section to express similar sentiments.
Former President Donald Trump was re-elected to the White House last week to be the 47th president of the United States.
TikTok user Kris said: “I’m having the exact same thoughts.” I’m devastated.’
Another wrote: “This morning I broke down and cried in my husband’s arms telling him we won’t have children.”
Samantha said: ‘We had the same conversation. We had been trying for almost 2 years and were starting to get hopeful that IVF would be an option. We didn’t feel safe trying it in Florida.
In another video posted the next day, Medlin added that she is increasingly concerned about the deaths of women and adolescents due to lack of access to safe health care and fears the increase in gun violence.
She said: “It’s just the reality of if I want to bring a child into this world and right now I feel very unsure of what it’s going to be like.”
The Charleston resident also fears that action on climate change will slow or that progress made will be reversed, leaving behind an unsafe planet for future generations.
She said: “I’m going to continue to hope… that climate change doesn’t recede even further than it has been so that any children I may have have a safe place to live.”
Medlin continued: ‘My friends in the LGBTQ+ community, I don’t know what’s going to happen to your rights. My trans friends, I don’t know what’s going to happen to you.
‘And that’s terrifying to me.
‘All I’m looking for is a kinder, safer country for our next generation and that’s what scares me. I don’t see that happening.’