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The University of Oregon recently announced that the school will begin offering abortion pills to its students starting in the fall.
The Lund Report, an independent agency that covers health issues in Oregon and southwest Washington, reported that the school will begin offering mifepristone and misoprostol to students at the university’s health center only.
Mifepristone inhibits progesterone, a necessary hormone keep the pregnancyand is usually followed by misoprostol to complete the abortion.
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A packet of misoprostol abortion pills. (Sergei Gapon/AFP via Getty Images)
A learn from the Ethics and Public Policy Center last April, written by Ryan T. Anderson, the organization’s president, and Jamie Bryan Hall, its director of data analysis, reviewed a claims database that included 865,727 mifepristone abortions.s from 2017 to 2023.
It found that 10.93% of women “experienced sepsis, infection, bleeding, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion.”
The Lund Report said the decision to provide abortion pills came after a campaign by UO Students for Choice, Associated Students of UO and the Young Democratic Socialists of America at the University of Oregon.
In February, the Daily Emerald report that the UO YDSA “has been campaigning for abortion access on campus for the past three years but has made it a major focus since this fall.”
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A container holding boxes of mifepristone, the first drug in medical abortion. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
The group reportedly voted to make school access to abortion pills a top priority in its campaign, “and this fall, Students for Choice has consolidated and launched a student-focused coalition that includes ASUO, YDSA, S4C and other groups.”
The Lund Report quoted Karlie Windle, president of UO Students for Choice, who said, “At a time when abortion is being pushed back and people are dying because of it, this is a big thing to be expanding in our little corner of the world.”
He also said that the school providing abortion pills on campus will help students who do not have cars.
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A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medical abortion during a clinic visit in Kansas City, Kan., Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
“How to call an Uber or take public transportation to Planned Parenthood adds a lot of obstacles to an already very difficult and emotionally difficult situation,” Windle said.
Fox News Digital reached out to the University of Oregon, UO Students for Choice, Associated Students of UO and Young Democratic Socialists of America at the University of Oregon for comment.
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