Last Tuesday, Tufts University announced it now offers medical abortions on campus, joining a growing list of universities offering the service in light of expanding abortion regulations across the country. Participated in something. But New York University has no plans to follow suit.
“At this time, we have no plans to provide medication abortion services to students on-site,” a spokesperson for the NYU Student Health Center said in an email to WSN. “However, SHC providers have long-standing relationships with external partners, including New York University Langone, who have excellent expertise and timely response for this and other abortion services. Masu.”
In a medical abortion, two pills, mifepristone and misoprostol, are taken to stop the hormone progesterone in the body and induce it to expel fetal material from the uterus. The drug, which patients can take until the 11th week of pregnancy, is about as safe and effective as surgical abortion, with a success rate of about 96%.
Other New York City private universities, including Columbia University and The New School, will no longer offer medical abortions on campus in June 2022 following a reversal of Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed citizens a constitutional right to abortion. We have started providing services. All schools within the state’s universities, the City College of New York and the City University of New York system, are also required to offer medical abortion services to students under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul in May 2023. Since the 2022 ruling, 13 states have enacted blanket bans on abortion, and eight others have enacted bans. Treatment after 18 weeks of pregnancy.
SHC told WSN that students can use the virtual medication abortion service to fill prescriptions for mifepristone and misoprostol at SHC pharmacies. Last year, the pharmacy began carrying mifepristone after receiving approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Initially, students could only access mifepristone from SHC if they had a referral to an outside abortion provider and were enrolled in Wellfleet, a health insurance program sponsored by New York University. The university later removed the referral requirement, but it only affected students enrolled in New York-based Wellfleet plans or health insurance plans.
New York University expanded its services to include full coverage of both elective and medically necessary abortions under Wellfleet in fall 2023. The university also installed five vending machines selling emergency contraceptive pills for $15. This was introduced by the SHC in response to Roe v. Wade’s Ace Attorney. .
“At a time when reproductive freedom is under attack and women today lack the bodily autonomy that their grandmothers once had, New York University is proud to offer medical abortion services on campus. “This is the responsibility of the New York University Democrats,” New York University Democrats President Saja Guerrero said in a paper. Statement to WSN. “Otherwise, access to basic health care will be limited.”
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