Current:Home > FinanceBarnard College will offer abortion pills for students-VaTradeCoin
Barnard College will offer abortion pills for students
best strategies for lotradecoin trading View Date:2024-12-25 22:25:54
Barnard College, a private women's college in New York City, will give students access to medication abortion — abortion pills — as soon as fall of next year, school officials announced Thursday.
The move, a direct response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, was made to ensure students' access to abortion health services no matter what the future holds, Marina Catallozzi, Barnard's chief health officer, and Leslie Grinage, the dean of the college, said in a statement announcing the move.
"Barnard applies a reproductive justice and gender-affirming framework to all of its student health and well-being services, and particularly to reproductive healthcare. In the post-Roe context, we are bolstering these services," Catallozzi and Grinage said.
The Food and Drug Administration last year relaxed decades-old restrictions on one of the medications, mifepristone, used to induce abortions in early pregnancy, allowing people to get it through the mail.
In the months since Roe was overturned, several states have restricted abortion access. Like Barnard, some schools, employers and other institutions have responded by attempting to broaden abortion access where possible.
Starting in January 2023, University of California and California State University campuses will similarly offer medication abortion under a state law.
Major employers have publicly said they will provide employees with travel coverage if they need to go out of state to get an abortion.
Just because Barnard is located in New York, where access to abortion has not been restricted, doesn't mean the college can't be prepared, officials said.
"While our students have access to high-quality reproductive health services in New York and particularly at [Columbia University Irving Medical Center], we are also preparing in the event that there is a barrier to access in the future, for any reason," Catallozzi and Grinage said.
veryGood! (4637)
Related
- Trump will be honored as Time’s Person of the Year and ring the New York Stock Exchange bell
- Joe Flacco named Browns starting quarterback for rest of season after beating Jaguars
- 1 killed in house explosion in upstate New York
- Russian presidential hopeful vows to champion peace, women and a ‘humane’ country
- Video shows drone spotted in New Jersey sky as FBI says it is investigating
- Ryan O'Neal, Oscar-nominated actor from 'Love Story,' dies at 82: 'Hollywood legend'
- Wisconsin GOP leader says he’s finished negotiating with university over pay raises, diversity deal
- It’s a tough week for Rishi Sunak. He faces grilling on COVID decisions and revolt over Rwanda plan
- Alex Jones keeps Infowars for now after judge rejects The Onion’s winning auction bid
- Kenya falls into darkness in the third nationwide power blackout in 3 months
Ranking
- Taxpayers could get $500 'inflation refund' checks under New York proposal: What to know
- What did you Google in 2023? ‘Barbie,’ Israel-Hamas war are among the year’s top internet searches
- Winding down from a long day's work by playing lottery on her phone, Virginia woman wins big
- Maryland women's basketball coach Brenda Frese: 'What are we doing to youth sports?'
- This house from 'Home Alone' is for sale. No, not that one.
- Illinois man who confessed to 2004 sexual assault and murder of 3-year-old girl dies in prison
- Elon Musk reinstates Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' X account
- Kansas is voting on a new license plate after complaints scuttled an earlier design
Recommendation
-
American who says he crossed into Syria on foot is freed after 7 months in detention
-
Google antitrust trial focused on Android app store payments to be handed off to jury to decide
-
Russian presidential hopeful vows to champion peace, women and a ‘humane’ country
-
'The Zone of Interest' named best film of 2023 by Los Angeles Film Critics Association
-
Woody Allen and Soon
-
Skiing Santas hit the slopes in Maine
-
Justin Jefferson injury update: Vikings WR released from hospital, travels home with team
-
Why protests at UN climate talks in UAE are not easy to find