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College students are withdrawing applications from––or simply refusing to apply to––universities in states with strict abortion bans.

One mother said, “It puts my child into a situation [where] I might think twice about her safety.” A private admissions counselor reported that sixty-one students have already withdrawn applications from Ohio and Georgia schools. “People are shocked and scared,” the counselor said, “They were like, ‘What are we going to do if we send our daughter there and she gets pregnant?’ ”

The laws are having a more profound impact than scaring some college students. Calls to boycott Alabama have been growing louder since it signed a strict abortion bill into law. The tag #BoycottAlabama has been trending online, and participants are calling consumers to stop buying everything from chickens to Mercedes-Benz cars that are produced in Alabama.

Georgia is facing similar backlash. Alyssa Milano, June Diane Raphael and George Takei all protested the bill before it was signed, and now that it has been signed the Killer Films CEO tweeted, that the company will “no longer consider Georgia as a viable shooting location until this ridiculous law is overturned.”

As Slate points out, banning abortion is always unpopular––especially in cases of rape. Alabama’s law, which does not have an exception for rape victims, is bound to be unpopular, even amongst conservatives and pro-lifers. These bills will likely, therefore, lead to considerable political backlash.

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