{"id":246664,"date":"2021-06-10T10:45:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=246664"},"modified":"2021-06-09T11:57:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T16:57:12","slug":"massachusetts-legislation-would-mandate-public-universities-provide-medication-abortion-to-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/massachusetts-legislation-would-mandate-public-universities-provide-medication-abortion-to-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts considers forcing public universities to provide abortion pill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A bill<\/a> before the Massachusetts legislature would make public universities in the state complicit in the deaths of hundreds of preborn children each year \u2014 on the taxpayers’ dime. H2399\/S1470<\/a>, introduced in the House on March 29 by\u00a0Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa and Sen. Jason Lewis, would establish “a separate fund to be known as the Public University Health Center Sexual and Reproductive Health Preparation Fund… for the purpose of medical abortion readiness.”<\/p>\n

The fund would cover costs of abortion pills, program administration, and more. While the bill appears to be about establishing a revenue stream, its actual effects would be much further reaching, as all 13 public university campuses would consequently be mandated to either provide the abortion pill or refer students to abortion providers.<\/p>\n

Funding abortions on the taxpayers’ dime<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the bill, funds for the bill would come from “appropriations or other money authorized by the general court” as well as “funds from non-state entities, including, but not limited to gifts, grants and donations from private entities and local and federal government agencies.”<\/p>\n

Interestingly, excess monies from the program would\u00a0not<\/em> be credited back to the state at the end of the year. Funding campus chemical abortions would not be cheap, as the bill stipulates provision of “a grant of no less than $200,000 to each public university health center to pay for the cost, both direct and indirect, of medical abortion [abortion pill] readiness.”<\/p>\n

The department of public health would be required to submit a yearly report of how many public university health centers were currently in operation, how many chemical abortions each one reported, how funds were disbursed to each recipient, and how each recipient utilized the money.<\/p>\n