DePaul U. Has Student ‘Womb Service’ That Quietly Delivers Contraception Products
“The student activists say they are providing essential help on campuses that enroll students of all faiths.”
DePaul is a Catholic University, which adds another layer of craziness to this.
The Associated Press reports:
A student ‘womb service’ works covertly to deliver contraception at a Catholic college
College student Maya Roman has the handoff down to a science: a text message, a walk to a designated site, and a paper bag delivered with condoms and Plan B emergency contraception. At DePaul University, it’s the only way students can get a sliver of sexual health support, she said.
DePaul, a Catholic school in Chicago, prohibits distribution of any kind of birth control on its campus.
To get around that, a student group runs a covert contraceptive delivery network called “the womb service.” The group was once the university’s chapter of Planned Parenthood Generation Action, but it has been operating off campus since DePaul in June revoked its status as a student organization.
At Catholic universities, which generally do not offer contraceptives on their campuses or at school-run health centers, student groups have stepped in to fill what they see as gaps in reproductive health care. It often means navigating pushback from college administrators.
In line with church teachings that discourage premarital sex and birth control, many Catholic colleges restrict access to contraceptives on campus. The student activists say they are providing essential help on campuses that enroll students of all faiths.
At DePaul, the university said it banished the student group over its affiliation with Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. It said it also “reserves the right to restrict the distribution of medical or health supplies/devices items on university premises that it deems to be inappropriate from the perspective of the institution’s mission and values.”
“I was in disbelief,” Roman said of the group being forced to disband. “It was a flood of disappointment.”
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well at least its one way to stop the womb -to-prison pipeline
its the colleges rule
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In a way, I applaud the fact that the snowflakes are discovering that they can actually do things for themselves and pay for them, instead of demanding that some Big Mommy (their family, then their school, then the government) be required to do all the work to give them what they want, plus pay all the costs of it.
The student center at Vanderbilt University has a vending machine that lets students get the Plan B pill.
Then go to a school that aligns with your beliefs if you don’t like the one you are in. Your not some brave French Resistance, your larpers. I hope DePaul expelled all of you
DePaul is so left wing I was surprised that this was NOT run by the school. I would not be surprised if they wink at it.