{"id":178720,"date":"2018-02-05T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T17:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=178720"},"modified":"2018-08-20T15:13:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T20:13:14","slug":"california-colleges-medication-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/california-colleges-medication-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"California may force colleges to provide medication abortion on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The California Senate has voted to approve a bill<\/a> that would require all public colleges and universities in the state to provide medication abortion<\/a>\u00a0pills on campus. The bill now will be sent to the California Assembly for approval.<\/p>\n

Currently, none of California’s 34 colleges provide on-campus abortions<\/a>. Instead, students are referred out from campus health centers to area abortionists. A group of private donors have already been lined up to pay the over $20 million in costs for the program. California State University officials, however, are wary. \u201cCurrently our CSU health centers offer basic health services, however, the administration of medications still requires a level of expertise that our health center staff may not have,\u201d Toni Molle, a CSU spokeswoman, said. Molle also expressed concern that the bill, if passed, would “impose severe costs for liability insurance, safety improvements, medical training and round-the-clock phone support for medical emergencies.”<\/p>\n

According to the bill’s sponsors, somewhere between 10 and 17 women try to get an abortion each month on every University of California campus, and between nine and 15 each month at CSU.<\/p>\n

While the abortion industry maintains that medication abortion, or RU-486, is safe and practically harmless, the truth is quite different<\/a>. As former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino explains, women have suffered adverse side effects, including death, after going through with a medication abortion.<\/p>\n