University Will Dispense Abortion Pills to Students to Kill Their Babies

The University of Oregon’s Health Services will reportedly begin dispensing dangerous abortion pills to students this year following persistent pro-abortion activism. Oregon Right to Life has condemned the efforts to get university providers to prescribe the drugs as “deeply irresponsible.”

The University of Oregon (UO) student news site The Daily Emerald reported Monday that the institution’s University Health Services (UHS) would begin prescribing the drugs to students in the fall semester after a coalition of student groups, including the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), reportedly gathered over 2,300 petition signatures and 200 survey responses.

Activists have lobbied for abortion pills on campus for years, with a 2024 effort failing to move forward.

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“UHS is responding to strong student interest and to broader concerns about access to abortion care nationwide,” UO said in an emailed statement to the Eugene Register-Guard.

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Students for Choice President Karlie Windle called the university’s decision to prescribe the drugs “a huge achievement and resource.” She told the outlet that access to the abortion pill from UHS “will allow students to have a much easier time in terms of decision making, taking care of themselves and advocating for their future.”

UHS physician Sarah Schram framed the move as putting the UO on the “forefront of healthcare.” Only one other Oregon academic institution – Portland State University – is dispensing abortion pills to students, according to The Daily Emerald.

Chemical abortions have become the most popular method of abortion in the U.S., reportedly accounting for an estimated 63% of legal abortions in 2023. Mifepristone, the first drug in the abortion pill regimen, blocks the action of the growth hormone progesterone, causing the developing human embryo to die of starvation. A second drug, misoprostol, is taken 24–72 hours later to induce contractions to expel the body. Abortion pills are increasingly prescribed and purchased online or from retail pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens following the removal of safety-based federal regulations.

In its Monday report, The Daily Emerald noted that students who completed the survey indicated that they would prefer to obtain abortion pills from UHS rather than Planned Parenthood (there are two Planned Parenthood facilities within a 10–20 minute drive from the campus). The report did not mention that abortion pills can already be obtained online or from local pharmacies.

Oregon Right to Life has been watching the situation at UO and previously blasted the “deeply irresponsible” efforts by the pro-abortion student group to push UHS to directly prescribe abortion drugs to students.

“Instead of supplying pregnant students with dangerous abortion pills, student organizations should be focused – as Oregon Right to Life and our local pro-life partners already are – on ensuring that young women have access to resources that will empower them, not push them toward dangerous drugs,” Oregon Right to Life said in a January statement to The College Fix. Pro-life clinics and resource centers outnumber Planned Parenthood facilities and provide quality care and support to pregnant and parenting women and families, including ultrasounds, exams, prenatal care, adoption referrals, and parenting support.

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Meanwhile, the move by the University of Oregon to distribute the abortion pill comes as the safety of mifepristone is currently under review by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The review was triggered by a 2025 Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) study finding the adverse reaction rate associated with the drug to be over one in ten (10.93%), twenty-two times the one currently listed on its official FDA label. The same study found an abortion pill-related emergency room visit rate of nearly one in 20 (4.7%), prompting renewed calls for a restoration of legal restrictions on the distribution of the drug.

As Oregon Right to Life has previously highlighted, federal regulations and safeguards have been severely eroded over the past decade. In 2016, the FDA expanded the timeframe in which mifepristone could be prescribed during pregnancy and removed the requirement to report complications that do not result in death.

In 2021, the FDA permitted the online prescription of mifepristone and its distribution through the mail. Local pharmacies were also authorized to dispense the drugs, and in January 2023, that permission was extended to retail pharmacies, including Walgreens and CVS.

A recent national poll found that 69% of respondents across the political spectrum agreed that “it makes sense for the FDA to bring back” the requirement for in-person doctors’ visits removed under the Biden administration.

Pro-life advocates have long raised the alarm that – in addition to their intended lethality for the unborn – abortion drugs pose serious risks to women. Women may experience a number of well-known adverse events like hemorrhaging, infection, and incomplete abortion (the failure to fully expel the body of the deceased human being). Many are frequently left to deal with the results of their chemical abortion alone, including the sometimes traumatic delivery of their dead embryo (often in a toilet).

And the elimination of federal restrictions and the capability of providers to prescribe the drugs online have created additional risks.

Without a required ultrasound, women may be incorrectly prescribed abortion pills even if they have a later or ectopic pregnancy, placing them at risk of serious side effects or even death. Online prescription and distribution through the mail further increases the risk that bad actors may obtain the pills to carry out forced abortions.

Examples highlighted by the pro-life news outlet Live Action include Robert Kawada, charged with misleading a woman into taking a chemical abortion drug under the pretense it was an iron pill in 2024; Jeffery Smith, who was convicted of attempted first-degree intentional homicide for slipping an abortion drug into his former girlfriend’s glass of water in 2022; and Justin Banta, a U.S. Department of Justice employee charged with capital murder for poisoning his girlfriend’s drink with mifepristone, among others.

Meanwhile, as pro-abortion activist groups seek to expand access to chemical abortion, including on college campuses, pro-life advocates are interested in ensuring that women who regret their decision to abort are equipped with potentially life-saving resources.

Heartbeat International, a pro-life organization that currently manages the Abortion Pill Rescue Network (APRN) and supports more than 2,000 pro-life pregnancy resource centers in 50 countries around the world, noted in late 2024 that 6,000 babies had thus far been saved from chemical abortions thanks to abortion pill reversal.

LifeNews Note: Ashley Sadler is Communications Director for Oregon Right to Life. Oregon Right to Life Education Foundation is actively involved in connecting churches with pro-life pregnancy resource centers across the state, as well as creating and distributing localized resource guides to ensure that abortion-vulnerable moms and families throughout Oregon have access to life-affirming options.

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