A teacher successful South Carolina has declared she volition not person children for arsenic agelong arsenic Donald Trump is president.
Kate Medlin, 31, posted a TikTok past week aft it appeared Trump would triumph the election saying she and her fiancé decided they would not beryllium having kids successful the adjacent 4 years, 'especially successful the authorities we are now.'
However, the preschool teacher added that erstwhile Trump leaves office, she'll beryllium astir 36 years old, making her a high-risk geriatric pregnancy, which means children are 'probably ne'er going to hap for me.'
Ms Medlin said successful her video: 'Last night, the speech my fiancé and I had earlier we went to furniture was if this happens, we won't beryllium having kids. At slightest not successful the adjacent 4 years. We decidedly can't person them successful the authorities we unrecorded successful now.'
The teacher ne'er mentioned termination and said successful aboriginal posts she wasn't specifically talking astir the close to take but was commenting connected the wider contented of women's healthcare.
However, successful her archetypal video she said she and hubby whitethorn see moving to Maine, Vermont or different 'protected' state.
'But adjacent then, who is to accidental what's going to happen,' she added.
Currently successful South Carolina, determination is simply a prohibition connected termination aft six weeks.
Preschool teacher Kate Medlin said she and her spouse volition not beryllium having children nether a Donald Trump presidency
There are exceptions successful instances of rape, incest, aesculapian emergencies and fatal fetal anomalies. In these cases, termination is allowed up to 12 weeks.
In Maine, termination is protected nether authorities instrumentality up until viability - astir 22 to 24 weeks of gestation - and successful Vermont determination is nary limit.
Trump has said helium wouldn't enforce a national termination prohibition - leaving decisions to the states - but has repeatedly bragged astir and taken work for the overturning of Roe vs Wade, which provided national protections for abortion.
Later successful her TikTok, Ms Medlin besides spoke astir LGBTQ+ rights and weapon unit successful schools.
She said: 'Waking up to texts betwixt myself and my pistillate friends and my LGBTQ+ friends and not knowing what the world's going to look similar for them either.
'And past coming to schoolhouse this greeting and realizing idiosyncratic mightiness privation to enactment a weapon successful my manus to support [students]... I thatch two- and three-year-olds and that is the satellite they're increasing up into.
'So I anticipation you voted and I anticipation you cognize what you did erstwhile you voted.'
The video has been viewed much than 337,000 clip and women flocked to the comments conception to explicit akin feelings.
Former President Donald Trump was reelected to the White House past week to beryllium the 47th president of the United States
TikTok idiosyncratic Kris said: 'I'm having precisely the aforesaid thoughts. I'm devastated.'
Another wrote: 'I conscionable broke down and cried successful my husband's arms this greeting telling him we won’t beryllium having kids.'
Samantha said: 'We had the aforesaid conversation. We’d been trying for astir 2 years and had conscionable started getting hopeful that IVF was an option. We don’t consciousness harmless trying successful Florida.'
In different video posted the adjacent day, Ms Medlin added she is progressively disquieted astir women and teenage girls dying from deficiency of entree to harmless healthcare and is frightened of expanding weapon violence.
She said: 'It's conscionable the world of bash I privation to bring a kid into this satellite and close present I consciousness precise unsure of what it's going to look like.'
The Charleston nonmigratory besides fears clime alteration enactment is going to alteration oregon advancement made volition beryllium reversed, leaving down an unsafe satellite for aboriginal generations.
She said: 'I'm going to proceed to hope... that clime alteration isn't going to beryllium pushed backmost adjacent further than it has been truthful the children I mightiness perchance person have a harmless spot to live.'
Ms Medlin continued: 'My friends successful the LGBTQ+ community, I don't cognize what's going to hap to their rights. My trans friends, I don't cognize what's going to hap to them.
'And that's terrifying to me.
'All I'm present for is simply a kinder, safer state for our adjacent procreation and that's what scares me. I don't spot that happening.'