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...additional packets that were given in clinics—compared to an average of eleven packets a week when a prescription was necessary. But, said Gharib, the slight decrease was “probably not statistically significant.” UHS currently offers students with moral objections to abortion a refund for the portion of term-bill fees that funds elective abortions—but the refund will not be extended to the funding of Plan B, Gharib wrote. Plan B does not abort embryos implanted in the uterus but rather prevents ovulation and possibly fertilization and implantation, according...
...Ultimately, this student will either choose to go through with the pregnancy or to abort the fetus. Regardless of what others may believe about the morality of her decision, she does not deserve to be attacked by her fellow students. Her mental health, already unstable as a result of sexual violence, can only be further damaged after she reads posters which accuse her of murder. These posters make her feel more isolated from other students during the time when she most needs social support...
...editors: Re: “Abortion: A Product of Its Times,” op-ed, Sep. 13. Although I abhor analyses that are grounded in social darwinism, I do agree with one of N. Kathy Lin’s insights, namely, that the way to abolish abortion is to create a world in which women are not driven to abort their children because of socioeconomic considerations. Banning abortion through statutes will not change the fact that women feel trapped by the burden of unwanted pregnancies. I sincerely believe that the only way we can abolish abortion is to give...
...look at a few illustrative statistics. A study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute reports that less than two percent of all abortions are performed because of rape or health issues. Most reasons given for abortion involve some sort of personal judgment on economic means or lifestyle inadequacies. The demographics of the women who seek abortions seem to reinforce this—21 percent are teenagers, and well over half of unwed pregnant women will opt for an abortion. These figures should make clear that abortions are used primarily as an instrument of socioeconomic preservation—over one fifth...
...tradeoff between present resources and future personal success is certainly a sad calculation to make. The solution, however, is not to eliminate abortion, which, given today’s social conditions, may sometimes be the better decision. It is to create a social environment that reduces the incidence of unwanted pregnancy, and that lessens the socioeconomic pressures that drive women to abort...