Washington state senators drafted a bill that would force state colleges to provide abortion pills, or “information and referral services” for abortion pills, to students.
Senate Bill 5321, introduced on Jan. 17, opens with the claim that “access to abortion is a human right, an integral part of essential health care, and vital for promoting public health,” and refers to women as “pregnancy capable students” and “pregnant persons.”
Nineteen Senators–18 Democrats and one Republican–co-sponsored the bill, which mandates that “each student health center [on a public campus] must offer access to medication abortion.”
State colleges and universities that do not have such centers would be obligated to “provide information and referral services” for students who want an abortion.
The bill claims that the Supreme Court’s 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade resulted in a surge of patients seeking abortions at local Washington abortion clinics, leading to increased overcrowding. […]
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