UMass Receives $80K State Grant to Promote ‘Abortion Access’
“The UHS leadership is thrilled to be able to continue to provide, as well as expand, our comprehensive reproductive health services to the UMass Amherst and Five College communities”
No surprises here. This is Massachusetts, after all.
Campus Reform reports:
UMass receives $80k state grant to boost ‘abortion access’
State officials have awarded the University of Massachusetts Amherst an $80,000 grant to increase student access to contraception and abortion.
On Thursday, the university announced the move as part of the state’s Department of Public Health’s Grant Partnership Opportunity for Colleges and Universities Abortion Project.
“[University Health Services] was awarded the grant to increase sexual and reproductive health and abortion access on campus, increase student engagement on reproductive health issues in partnership with UHS, and to continue to provide these services in a safe and patient-centered manner,” the university said in its announcement.
According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health website, promoting abortion availability on college campuses is essential for students “reproductive health care.”
“The UHS leadership is thrilled to be able to continue to provide, as well as expand, our comprehensive reproductive health services to the UMass Amherst and Five College communities,” Dr. Leora Cohen-McKeon of UMass UHS noted in the university’s announcement.
Governor Maura Healey has made increasing contraception and abortion access a critical part of her administration. In 2023, she created an abortion toolkit to assist public universities in offering abortion services to its students.
UMass UHS health officials also offer a wide range of contraception options depending on a student’s “gender identity.”
“Birth control services are available in our General Medicine Clinics, or in our Sexual & Reproductive Health Clinic, which has a focus on serving cis and trans women, trans men, and nonbinary patients,” the UHS website says.
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Waste of money. Does anyone believe that abortion access has to be promoted? Does anyone believe that there is a single person in MA who doesn’t know abortion is available and where to find it? Stupid.
Grants like this are a form of academic welfare provided to maintain the lifestyles of dysfunctional progressives. No one will gain better access to a procedure that is already widely available, but the funds can provide salaries for activists who will support political agendas, and whatever is left can be appropriated by the Unis for “indirect costs”. Multiply this times several orders of magnitude and it is easier to see why things have come to such a sorry pass.
Not my circus anymore.
The faster they collapse, the sooner we can move in and terraform it.