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...front page article by Gay W. Seidman, Friday Nov. 12, The Crimson announced that the University had decided to include abortions in the Student Health Care Plan. The article said that under the new policy, University Health Services will refund the portion of the fee that goes toward non-therapeutic abortions to students who oppose such voluntary abortions...
However, nowhere in the article, or in subsequent articles on the plan ("Covering Abortions, Slowly," Saturday, Nov. 13, and editorials "For UHS Abortion Coverage" and "Against Abortion Coverage," Wednesday, Nov. 17) did The Crimson specify how students can obtain this refund. Those of us who are interested for moral reasons in withdrawing the portion of our Health Services fee that would go toward abortion coverage were left totally in the dark as to how we could...
...missing information, as far as calls to UHS can reconstruct it, is this: a letter has been sent from UHS to all Harvard students, explaining the refund procedure. (It was supposed to have been distributed two weeks ago but was reportedly held up at the printer.) Each individual wishing to prevent his or her support of nontherapeutic abortions will apparently have to write a letter to the insurance office at UHS requesting the refund...
Those supporting the insurance program point to the inclusion of maternity benefits and to the refund for students objecting to abortion as provisions that accomodate opposition. First, for many, there can be no equation between the premature destruction of human life and the arrival of a new person into the world. Secondly, while the refund option does in a sense exempt a student from actively supporting abortion, it does not change the fact the the University's support of abortion coverage creates the problem in the first place...
...portion of their health services fee--less than $1.00--that will go toward UHS abortion coverage. Such a provision is only fair, given the opposition, due to religious or ethical conviction, of some members of the Harvard community to abortion. But students who plan to ask the UHS to refund their part of the abortion fund should realize that by thus stating their opposition to the abortion coverage plan they express by implication a desire to return to a situation where less wealthy students face problems wealthier ones need not consider. Such a stand is hard to support, whether...