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California Bill Would Mandate On-Campus Access To Abortion Pills

As restrictions on medication abortion mount in other states, legislation that would require health centers at California public universities to stock abortion pills is moving ahead.
If a bill in the California Legislature become law, campus health centers at public universities would be required to provide abortion pills.

In California, the state Senate is considering legislation that would ensure that students at four-year public universities in California have access on campus to medication for abortions.

Sen. Connie Leyva introduced the bill, SB 320, in February 2017. It would require all health centers within the University of California and California State University systems to stock the drugs prescribed for medication abortion and ready their campus health clinics to provide them by 2022.

Medication abortion involves two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, that a woman can take at a clinic or

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