University of Oregon to offer abortion pills to students this fall
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The University of Oregon recently announced that the school will begin offering abortion pills to its students starting in the fall.
The Lund Report, an independent publication that covers health news for Oregon and southwestern Washington. reported The school will begin offering mifepristone and misoprostol to students only at the university health center.
Mifepristone blocks progesterone, a needed hormone. maintaining pregnancyand is usually followed by misoprostol to complete the abortion.
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Misoprostol abortion pill package. (Sergei Gapon/AFP via Getty Images)
A. to work The report last April from the Center for Ethics and Public Policy, written by Ryan T. Anderson, the organization’s president, and Jamie Bryan Hall, director of data analysis, examined a database of claims that included 865,727 prescription mifepristone abortions.S. From 2017 to 2023.
It found that 10.93% of women “experienced sepsis, infection, bleeding, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following mifepristone abortion.”
The Lund Report said the decision to provide abortion pills followed a campaign by UO Student Choice, UO Associated Students and Young Democratic Socialists of America at the University of Oregon.
The Daily Emerald in February reported UO YDSA “has been campaigning for abortion access on campus for the past three years, but has made this its main focus since this fall.”
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A container holding boxes of mifepristone, the first drug in medical abortion. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
The group reportedly voted to make access to abortion pills in school a top campaign priority, “and this fall, it launched a collaboration for Students for Choice, a student-centered coalition that includes ASUO, YDSA, S4C, and other groups.”
The Lund Report quoted UO Student Choice President Karlie Windle as saying: “At a time when access to abortion is being rolled back and people are literally dying as a result, the proliferation of this practice in our little corner of the world is a huge thing.”
He also said the school, which provides abortion pills on campus, will help students who don’t have cars.
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A patient prepares to take mifepristone, the first of two combination pills for a medication abortion, during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
“The dynamic of calling an Uber or taking public transportation to Planned Parenthood adds so many obstacles to an already very difficult and emotionally heavy situation,” Windle said.
Fox News Digital reached out to the University of Oregon, UO Students’ Choice, UO Associated Students and the Young Democratic Socialists of America at the University of Oregon for comment.
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