California public universities will offer their students and staff access to the abortion pill on all their campuses so that do not saturate external clinics due to the foreseeable arrival of patients from other states in which medication is illegal.
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The two public higher education systems, Cal State and the University of California, They promised this Thursday to include the pill in their students’ medical insurance, at no added cost, before next January 1.
The effort is part of the measures that the state of California, one of the most progressive in the US, is promoting to shield access to abortion after the Supreme Court has repealed the ruling that, since 1973, protected this right in all the country.
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However, the adoption of the abortion pill on campus had already been approved in a 2019 law. The decision of the High Court has accelerated the plans of the universities. According to both institutions, which have centers in the main cities of the state such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, lto measure, it will contribute to free up other clinics so that they can serve patients from restrictive states that do not allow the sale of these pills in their pharmacies.
A 2018 study by the University of California at San Francisco estimated that between 300 and 500 female students require some type of reproductive health care each month.
The campuses of all the universities add up to more than 500,000 students enrolled. LikewiseCalifornians will vote on whether their state Constitution should explicitly protect the right to abortion in the midterm elections scheduled for November.
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It is a constitutional amendment presented by the Democratic Party, which has a majority in this body, and which went ahead to guarantee the interruption of pregnancy and access to contraceptives to any pregnant woman who is on Californian soil.
Aborting is legal under the protection of Californian jurisprudence, but from the Democratic Party they have wanted to safeguard this right by seeking constitutional status.
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As soon as the final ruling of the Supreme Court was made public, California, Washington and Oregon, the three states that make up the west coast of the United States, endorsed their commitment to shield the right to abortion through a series of joint actions that they described as “West Coast offensive” (the west coast offensive).
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