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...Warren E.C. Wacker, UHS director, said yesterday that only therapeutic abortions are covered under the University's Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance policies. The UHS refers students who need abortions to Boston clinics, he said...
Although he said he is not "personally opposed" to changing that insurance policy to include first trimester abortions for non-medical reasons, Wacker said such a proposal would be "a very sensitive issue...
...Both Wacker and Bisbee said, they do not know how many Radcliffe women get abortions each year...
...Warren E.C. Wacker, director of the University Health Services, says UHS treats about eight anorexics a year, two of whom have to be hospitalized in Stillman Infirmary. Since most anorexics deny there is anything wrong with them and are generally brought to the doctor by their parents, Dr. Lauring Conant, an internist at UHS, says, there are probably more anorexic students at Harvard than UHS treats...
...enough birth control education on campus. Room 13 staffers, who average one to two late night telephone requests for birth control information, have already had to tell a couple of callers that the morning-after pill must not be taken as soon as the sun rises the next day. Wacker says the people he sees seem well-educated about birth control. But what he may be overlooking with a system as subtle at Harvard's birth control program is that his patients may be self-selecting. "The people in the UHS think that the students they see are well-educated...