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...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 in Holyoke Center...
...need for these referrals undermines the major advantage of the pill, because it does not allow women to receive RU-486 from their primary-care physician. Such an extremely difficult decision is best handled in the context of a familiar doctor-patient relationship, and the University should encourage any policy that can make such a decision a less painful experience for women...
...benefits of RU-486 lie in its flexibility and privacy, but the restrictions on its distribution limit what the community can gain from the new drug. UHS's decision not to offer the pill at Holyoke Center will require women to make three unnecessary trips into Boston. Students should only have to visit another facility in the rare cases where they a follow-up surgical procedure is required, in which case their primary-care physician could accompany them...
...decision of UHS to refrain from offering this new and controversial service to its students is a sound one. RU-486 is not just a pill that can be distributed over the counter--rather, it involves several visits to internists for its administration. In the few cases where the pill has been ineffective, the practitioners have had to perform surgical abortion procedures; in others, surgery was needed as a result of heavy bleeding. UHS does not administer abortions on-site, and given the possibility of complications, it is wise to refer students elsewhere...
...overturning of Roe v. Wade. In America, this battle is fought, peculiarly, not at the center but at the periphery. The new President repeals the former President's directive allowing funding for abortion counseling overseas. He orders a safety review of RU 486, the so-called abortion pill. He then expresses himself on perhaps the most peripheral issue of all: research that relies on fetal tissue. Bush opposes such research, and has asked the Department of Health and Human Services to study whether federal funding for it should be banned. Now, there may be good reason to pause before opening...