Colleges Are Becoming Abortion Clinics
The University of Oregon, which hosts 24,000 students on its Eugene, Oregon, campus, has announced that its student health services center will now abort students’ babies.
Beginning this fall, students will be able to obtain mifepristone and misoprostol from the university’s health clinic. Students will then birth what is often a recognizable dead baby, presumably in their dorm rooms.
“[University Health Services] is committed to ensuring students have access to timely, comprehensive reproductive care,” university spokesman Angela Seydel told local radio station KLCC last week. “Expanding our services to include medication abortion is the next necessary step in that commitment.”
University of Oregon students have long demanded that the university provide abortions. But the university had maintained that it did not have the resources to perform abortions via mifepristone and misoprostol because, in the case of complications, it would not be equipped to surgically remove a dead baby, or baby parts, that did not expel from a student’s uterus.
“We’ve referred to the community for this service because we cannot provide the entire range of services a student might need,” the director of the university’s health services, Margaret Trout, recently explained. “So in the event that a medication abortion isn’t successful and a student needs a second step, we’re not able to provide that procedure.”
Complications other than retained baby body parts can also follow a regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol. The mother can experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, and/or excessive bleeding.
Of course, most importantly, abortions kill living human beings. At 10 weeks’ gestation — when medication abortions are approved in the United States — a baby is over an inch long, has all of his fingers and toes, and can move his arms and roll over.
But University of Oregon student Priscilla Moreno, who previously aborted one of her own children, did not think the university’s arrangement of sending students to Planned Parenthood for abortions was sufficient. She sought to be elected president of the University of Oregon’s student government and made university-provided abortions one of her central campaign platforms. After she was elected, Moreno’s student government formed a “coalition” with Students for Choice and the Young Democratic Socialists of America and launched a petition calling for abortions to be performed at the university’s health center; the petition was signed by over 2,000 students.
Following this student effort, the university decided to ignore the fact that it is not medically equipped to treat complications suffered by mothers during abortions. In cases of complications, the university decided it could just send students elsewhere.
The University of Oregon explained this decision last week, stating, “[M]any students would prefer to begin care at [University Health Services] with providers they know and trust, even if a referral might be required in the small percentage of cases where a follow up procedure is necessary.”
A study published last year by the Ethics and Public Policy Center found that 10.93 percent of women who take mifepristone experience a “serious adverse event.” These events include sepsis, infection, hospitalization, an ER visit, a surgical abortion, anaphylaxis, cardiac events, and surgery.
The abortions will be free for students with Oregon insurance providers, and the university is seeking additional funding to make the abortions free or heavily discounted for out-of-state students.
The University of Oregon’s implementation of on-campus abortions is part of a growing national trend that was kicked off by California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
In 2019, Newsom signed a law requiring all public universities in California to provide abortions for their students by 2023. Governors in Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois signed similar legislation in 2022, 2023, and 2025, respectively. And lawmakers in Washington state are currently considering a bill that would likewise require public universities to abort their students’ babies.
In Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker signed the abortion law last fall only after the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign said it “does not have the expertise in-house to provide abortion services.” (RELATED: Illinois Law Mandates On-Campus Abortion Services)
Several other universities have chosen in recent years to provide abortions to their students without state mandates requiring them to do so. These include private schools, Columbia University, and Tufts University.
Back in 2020, a survey by the American College Health Association found that only 2.5 percent of university health centers offered abortions. But the changes implemented under the Biden administration to the FDA’s protocol for mifepristone have meant that it is easier for clinics to provide abortions in this manner, particularly because retail pharmacies are now allowed to dispense the abortion-causing drug.
The post-Dobbs environment of pro-abortion fury has also meant that states and universities have been increasingly motivated to ensure students’ babies can be killed, and have treated this as a matter of moral necessity. Just supporting abortion as a legal right is no longer enough for them. They want to do something even more tangible: killing their students’ unborn babies themselves.
Rep. Chip Roy and Sen. Steve Daines have led the Republican charge on responding to this trend of universities doubling as abortion providers. They introduced the Protecting Life on College Campus Act, which would prohibit federal funds from going to universities that host clinics that perform abortions for students.
“A college dorm room is no place to have a do-it-yourself abortion,” said Roy, “and the American taxpayer should not be paying for the destruction of innocent human life on our college campuses.”
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