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Some Students Want Colleges to Provide the Abortion Pill. Schools Are Resisting. [1]

['Anemona Hartocollis', 'Stephanie Saul']

Date: 2022-07-19

Medication abortion involves taking two types of pills, federally approved for use within the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. It is different from the morning-after pill, which is more widely available at student health centers and can be taken to block a pregnancy before it begins.

A few colleges, including the University of Illinois Chicago, already provide the abortion pill. The University of Massachusetts Amherst plans to begin offering it in the fall. In California, a new law requires all of the state’s public universities to provide medication abortion on campus by January; some campuses, like in Berkeley, have already begun to do so.

But because of the fluctuating landscape of abortion law, and because of the complicated politics, persuading more colleges to provide medication abortion will be difficult.

Colleges in states with restrictive abortion laws, like Missouri, may not be able to legally offer it. Other universities, especially publicly funded ones in states where laws are in flux, do not want to end up on the wrong side of legislation.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/19/us/colleges-abortion-pill.html

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