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Among candidates currently under consideration by the House Committee and Senior Common Room are John S. Harwell, director of the Harvard Student Employment Office and Mather senior tutor, and Warren E.C. Wacker, director of the University Health Services and acting master of Kirkland House...
...Bisbee, who is assistant to the director of UHS, said. She maintained that the health service is trying to get more information to, as well as criticism from, students, adding that UHS "sees that we have to make the mechanism for both these processes more obvious." Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of the UHS, termed the scarcity of information distributed inside UHS and throughout the University "simply and oversight...
Though UHS sees only about 30 students annually for abortion referral, (given the misconceptions about whether the Health Service can perform abortions there and whether Harvard's health plan covers the costs of an abortion) it is likely that many students will get their abortion without ever contacting UHS. Wacker said the number of women who become pregnant and then use the pregnancy/abortion counseling services has not been determined. "I suppose we could calculate it, but we never really saw any need to know that...
Martin R. Peterson, assistant director of UHS, handles the problem of undergraduate medical coverage. He said that if Harvard felt inclined, it could change its Blue-Cross/Blue Shield plan to include coverage of abortions on demand in outpatient facilities for about $5 more a year, per student. However, Wacker said there would be a "sizeable minority" of alumni who would be "very upset were abortions to be paid for by Harvard." When UHS sent out a questionnaire on attitudes toward abortion after the Supreme Court decided in 1973 to legalize abortions on demand, that sizeable minority--about...
...abortions (up to 12, and sometimes 13 weeks) since a simple, vacuum aspiration/suction abortion, taking only five to seven minutes, can be performed up to that time. With $50 and an hour or so of time, any woman can have an abortion. (If someone doesn't have the funds, Wacker said, "the 'Crit' will usually do the abortion anyway; if it takes time for someone to pay, it'll wait...