Commentary: Public university students should have on-campus access to the 'abortion pill'
by Jackie Castellanos, Los Angeles Times
Sep 19, 2019
3 minutes
When Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the bill last year that would have provided California's public university students access to medication abortion - widely known as the "abortion pill" - at their on-campus student health centers, he justified it by saying most students lived within five to seven miles of an off-campus abortion provider. He saw the distance as not "unreasonable."
But this reasoning is an oversimplification of the barriers students face in trying to secure abortion services.
I'm one of those students who had to travel to an abortion provider off campus, but I
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