James Madison University To Stop Distributing Emergency Contraception At Campus Health Center
[April 22, 2003]
Harrisonburg, Va.-based James Madison University on Friday said that it will stop providing emergency contraception at its campus health center in response to a complaint from a state legislator, the AP/Washington Post reports. The state-supported university's Board of Visitors on Friday voted to stop dispensing the so-called "morning-after" birth control pills after Del. Robert Marshall (R) sent a letter to the board criticizing the practice. Board member Mark Obenshain, who is running for state Senate, said that students could still receive the pills from off-campus sources and characterized the medication as a form of abortion, saying, "We don't provide a full range of abortion services" (AP/Washington Post, 4/20). JMU President Linwood Rose in his response to Marshall's letter said that the health center has provided the drug since 1995, and according to health center records, 2,017 JMU students have bought the pills on campus. Following the vote on Friday, nine of Virginia's 15 state-supported schools make the drug available to students through campus health centers (Associated Press, 4/19)).
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