Tufts University now offering students abortion pills
The pills are mifepristone and misoprostol.
Tufts University is now offering medication abortion pills for students on campus, praising the pills for being effective and safe. The pills are mifepristone and misoprostol.
“Essentially, medication abortion is the process of using … two different medications to end the pregnancy,” Dr. Marie Caggiano, medical director for Tufts Health Service, said, according to The Tufts Daily. “Medication abortion is very, very safe and effective … up to [the] first trimester [of a] pregnancy.”
Caggiano also noted that in offering abortion pills, the university is taking a burden off of abortion providers in the area.
“We may be offloading some centers that provide abortion, like Planned Parenthoods and other places who might need to be seeing more folks traveling from out of state,” she said.
One reason for the move is the Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson, overturning Roe v. Wade.
“With the Supreme Court decision, it was just very clear that this was something that was very, very important to those of us in [Massachusetts],” Alexandra Donovan, director of the Tufts Center for Awareness, Resources and Education said.
An official from the pro-life group Students For Life told Campus Reform: “. . . about 2 percent of pregnant mothers will experience a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, and yet Democrat-controlled agencies got rid of an ultrasound test screening requirement, which would detect that. Why don’t we care about the risks to women caused by this reckless distribution?”
”There is no reason to transform schools into places where future generations lose their lives. The rush for more abortion represents a radicalization and misuse of our schools not for an agenda that builds up students, but into a place for issue warriors to camp, focusing on students who cannot get away from them while at school. That’s not what taxpayers should be forced to fund,” the official continued.
Campus Reform contacted Tufts University for comment. This story will be updated accordingly.
