{"id":309841,"date":"2024-04-07T13:47:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T18:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=309841"},"modified":"2024-04-08T12:06:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T17:06:48","slug":"npr-california-college-student-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/npr-california-college-student-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR publishes unbelievable story of California college student’s struggle to get the abortion pill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NPR is broadcasting the complaints some have made<\/a> that the ‘free’ abortion pills (chemical abortion) available on college campuses in California are not being advertised adequately to students, leading them to go off campus for abortions. Yet NPR mentions nothing about resources schools should be making available for pregnant and parenting students.<\/p>\n

As of January 2023, all of California’s 33 public university campuses are required by law to offer the abortion pill to students. But that’s not enough. Now, they are being pressured to advertise this to students on their websites.<\/p>\n

NPR reported that an LAist investigation<\/a> found that 11 of 23 California State University (CSU) campus clinics didn’t have information about the abortion pill on their websites or list abortion as being available on campus. Two of the University of California’s (UC) 10 campuses also didn’t list the abortion pill on their websites. After the LAist published its findings, five CSU campuses and one UC campus added the abortion pill information to their websites.<\/p>\n

In addition to forcing campus health clinics to carry the abortion pill, state legislators set up a $10 million fund to help universities purchase the abortion pills and update their facilities, equipment, training, and security. However, NPR notes, legislators did not require the clinics to advertise that the abortion pill is available on campus at no cost to students.<\/p>\n

Connie Leyva, the former state senator who wrote the bill, blamed any pro-life members of campus leadership for the lack of fanfare around the free abortion drugs. “Everything starts at the top. And if the president or chancellor of the university knows they have to offer it, but if they don’t agree that women should have access to abortion services, then they might just think, ‘We’ll leave it off, we don’t have to worry about it,'” she said.<\/p>\n