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Harvard Right to Life (HRL) began a drive on Monday to encourage students to request a small but symbolic refund for the portion of their University Health Services (UHS) fee used to fund abortions.
This marks the seventh year that HRL has publicized the refund policy since 1998, when Daniel H. Choi ’94 found the provision about abortion in the UHS handbook and decided to let others know about it.
The refund—based upon the combined cost of all abortions divided by the number of people paying health fees—is down from $1.09 last year, according to UHS Director David S. Rosenthal.
Since no abortions are performed on campus, the UHS fee subsidizes—and has subsidized for the past 20 years— those performed off-site, according to Rosenthal. He said he did not know the average number of abortions subsidized annually by UHS, which serves about 20,000...
Rosenthal added that students have been very understanding toward UHS about the flu vaccine shortage.