After COVID, Another Public Health Crisis
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Having weathered COVID and now monkeypox, colleges across the country are facing a new public health crisis—lack of access to abortion. And this one threatens to change the face of higher education for years to come. Women aged 20 to 24 years have the highest rates of unintended pregnancy among any age group. As a result, colleges, which educate more than nine million women at any given time, will be deeply affected by the recent Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, revoking the federal right to legal abortion.
Originally published: November 3, 2022
Author: Elizabeth H. Bradley
Position: President
Institution: Vassar College
Published by: Inside Higher Ed