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...Dispense RU-486 on Campus
Earlier this month, Harvard students learned that they can now receive the abortion drug RU-486 through a referral from University Health Services (UHS). The availability of RU-486 to Harvard students is a step in the right direction towards the greater availability of the drug. However, we urge UHS to rethink its decision not to dispense the pill at the Holyoke Center...
According to UHS Director David S. Rosenthal ’59, UHS has no plans now or in the future to distribute RU-486 at the Holyoke Center. As a result, under the current arrangements, women seeking RU-486 must be referred by UHS either to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston or to the Planned Parenthood center in Brighton, the procedure currently followed by students seeking a surgical abortion...
...when Sarah Morgan, 30, entered five years ago, she found there would be almost nothing in her training about abortion. Nothing in epidemiology, the study of common procedures, even though abortion is one of the most commonly performed surgeries; nothing in pharmacology, where mifepristone, now commonly known as RU 486, is mentioned as an anticancer agent but not in the context of abortions; and nothing scheduled in the hospital rotations. "We had an hour lecture on the ethics of abortion. That's it," recalls Morgan...
...abortion to their lectures or persuading skittish deans to allow a student debate on the issue. At Harvard, MSFC students set up a lecture on abortion and then persuaded administrators to make it part of the mandatory curriculum. At Brown, students urged professors to update their lectures by adding RU 486 and other abortion advancements as topics. The group at the University of Texas-Southwestern, where administrators were originally wary of even allowing a chapter, successfully pushed for a fourth-year elective at a Planned Parenthood clinic...