Tufts University Offering Free Chemical Abortions For Its Students

By Tom Joyce | November 22, 2024, 17:51 EST

Tufts University now offers free chemical abortions for its students.

The Tufts Health Service started offering chemical abortions to abort unborn babies up to 11 weeks into pregnancy in September, according to a Tufts University Sex Health Representatives Instagram post.

Students who pay the school’s mandatory Health and Wellness fee are eligible for these free abortions, according to the same Instagram post. That Health and Wellness fee is $1,162 for the 2024-2025 school year, according to the Tufts University site. 

Ashton Gerber, social media coordinator for Tufts’s Sex Health Representatives, praised the university’s abortion program.

“I think that’s why it is very exciting,” Gerber told The Tufts Daily. “Not only that they’re offering this care, but that’s covered in the [Health and Wellness Fee], which is such a key point of accessibility, particularly for undergraduate students. You don’t even have to think about what your insurance is going to do with this information.”

Dr. Marie Caggiano, medical director of Tufts Health Service, said the school’s Health Service decided to start offering abortions to reduce the workload for Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in America. 

“We have students who come from all over this country and also international students,” Caggiano told The Tufts Daily. “Access may look very different somewhere else, and we felt like by offering [medication abortion] here, we may be offloading some centers that provide abortion, like Planned Parenthoods and other places who might need to be seeing more folks traveling from out of state.”

She put the new abortion program in the contest of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022.

“With the Supreme Court decision, it was just very clear that this was something that was very, very important to those of us in [Massachusetts],” she added. “Making sure that [abortion is] safe, that it is something that all the staff that are providing it have been trained in … was a mission for all of us in health and wellness.”

Massachusetts Citizens for Life president Myrna Maloney Flynn condemned Tufts for this development and said that it is no way to help pregnant women.

“It’s unfortunate, though not surprising, that Tufts fell into the trap of equating student ‘care’ with chemical abortion,” Flynn told NewBostonPost in an email message. “Encouraging girls to poison their unborn children and deliver dead fetuses into campus toilets, while helping to hide the experience from hometown physicians and families’ insurance providers, is not the role of higher ed administrators. It’s a curious realm for Tufts in particular, a school which claims a motto of ‘Peace and Light.’ Offering a heartless ‘solution’ for women in crisis, dim subterfuge, and violence against innocent human beings reflects neither component.”

As Flynn points out, the Tufts University motto is Pax et Lux, which is Latin for “Peace and Light.”

Tufts University is a private university in Medford, Massachusetts. It serves about 12,000 students and has a 10.1 percent acceptance rate.

Tufts is also one of the most expensive schools in America, as NewBostonPost previously reported. The projected cost of attending Tufts University for the 2024-2025 school year is $95,888, according to the school’s web site. That’s a 7 percent cost increase compared to the 2023-2024 school year ($89,584). 

A spokesman for Tufts could not be reached for comment on Wednesday or Thursday. Nor could Caggiano.

 

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