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Prospects seemed just as dim for Gina M. Ocon '98-'00, who found out she was pregnant while already enrolled at Harvard. Balancing life as an undergraduate and a mother seemed so impossible that Ocon says she felt she would have to give up the Harvard degree she had always dreamed of or have an abortion...
...told that girls get pregnant here everyday and that 99 percent of them get abortions," Ocon says. "It shocked me. It didn't click until almost a year, when Bailey had already been born and I was planning my return to Harvard, as to what that meant. There are so many financial and psychological disincentives to being a parent here...
...contrast to Payanzo's first impression, UHS has no general policy for dealing with pregnant women, says Dr. Randolph Catlin, chief of mental health services...
Mothers at Cornell University face a similar predicament. According to the Cornell Daily Sun, which recently examined the university's resources for pregnant women and young mothers, Cornell offers minimal resources. The student health center on campus has no obstetricians on staff, and the university provides no day-care services for students or university employees...
Most of the school's resources are geared toward pregnancy prevention. But, Cornell does offer counseling for students who have just found out they are pregnant and refers them to local obstetricians to ensure they receive proper prenatal care...