https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/health/abortion-pills-barnard.html

Thursday it was announced that the private women’s college in New York City, Barnard, will begin offering abortion pills on campus next year.

It is a signal of a front from the nation’s colleges and universities to the ongoing battle of abortion after the Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe v. Wade.

It is seen multiple places in the states that it is becoming a requirement for public colleges and universities to provide abortion pills. This is for example seen in Massachusetts and California where laws are enacted to make them have abortion pills in 2023. Contrary, other schools such as University of Idaho has made it clear that the staff can get in severe trouble if they counsel patients on abortion due to Idaho’s near-total ban on abortion.

There is a lot of different approaches from school to school and it is very dependent on the laws of the states. The common thread for the schools that allows abortion pills is that they want to protect students and prepare for the extra amount of people that might come now because of the bans of abortion.

This article gives a lot of details on how the ongoing debate of abortion affects colleges and universities in the nation and how they decide to approach it. Personally, I think the article is a good way of enlightening people on the topic in a very easy and simple way. It might be a little too long in some people’s opinion since there is mentioned a lot of different colleges, but I think in this case it works to mention multiple colleges perspective.