A recent Yale University report shocked the educational world by showing that schools themselves are responsible for Americans’ loss of trust in higher education. Schools have lost their way, prioritizing political correctness over quality education.

Case in point: More and more publicly funded colleges and universities are performing and facilitating abortions rather that useful degrees. 

Ending the lives of future students seems like the wrong agenda for places meant to uplift and empower people. But that’s exactly their agenda, as they’ve pivoted not only to denouncing traditional family values but to actively promoting abortion on demand.

Today, more than 216 campuses across the country now offer on-campus abortions (or, in the case of several small schools, immediate abortion referrals and “streamlined” assistance).

Those campuses include:

• All public universities in California — 32 schools
  • Both public university systems, the UC system and CSU system, have been required by law to offer abortion since 2019.
    
• All public colleges in Massachusetts — 29 schools
  • All public schools, including universities and community colleges, have been required to offer abortion by state law since 2023.
  • Small community colleges without the resources to offer abortion are required to assist students in obtaining abortions off-campus.
    
• All public universities in New York — 90 schools
  • All campuses in the SUNY and CUNY systems have been required by law to offer abortion since 2023 – either directly through campus health centers or via streamlined referrals.
    
• All public colleges in Illinois — up to 62 schools
  • All Illinois public colleges with health centers have been required by law to offer on-campus abortions since 2025.
    
• Columbia University — since 2024
  
• Tufts University — since 2024
  
• University of Oregon — since 2026

That list only includes schools that offer on-campus abortions through their campus health care — meaning it doesn’t account for the vast number of schools that operate vending machines featuring so-called emergency contraception. While marketed as “pregnancy-preventing,” studies show these drugs (the most common of which is Plan B) can act as Chemical Abortion Pills, not contraceptives, in up to 92% of cases. In other words, 92% of the time they’re used, these pills don’t just prevent pregnancy — they directly kill preborn babies.

Yet despite that, “emergency contraception” vending machines feature on at least 149 campuses across the country, including some in red states that ban abortion at or before 6 weeks.

According to the American Society for Emergency Contraception, that list includes, but is not limited to:

• Florida (6-week abortion ban):
  • Florida Gulf Coast University
  • Florida International University 
  • University of South Florida, Tampa
    
• Georgia (6-week abortion ban):
  • Agnes Scott College – Georgia
  • Emory University – Georgia
  • Georgia Tech – Georgia
    
• Indiana (complete abortion ban):
  • Butler University
  • Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Purdue University
    
• Louisiana (complete abortion ban):
  • Tulane University
    
• Oklahoma (complete abortion ban):
  • University of Tulsa
    
• Tennessee (complete abortion ban):
  • Vanderbilt University

In many cases, the universities don’t just offer the pills, they subsidize them — dropping the price from the typical $50 to as low as just $7.

There’s something grotesque about knowing that just feet away from where American youths dream of their futures, preborn babies are denied any chance of ever having that future. Not only that, but colleges are paying for — or at least subsidizing — their deaths.

What’s worse? While abortion activists argue abortion is necessary to help those young adults achieve their futures, that’s not the case. It’s quite possible to obtain an education while caring for a child, especially given the vast number of resources available today to pregnant and parenting students.

Yet most colleges choose not to advertise those resources. Their websites are full of references to Planned Parenthood and abortion-by-mail, but most don’t even mention pro-life pregnancy resource centers or offer referrals to doctors in case a student wants to keep their child.

Their refusal to inform women of their resources often leads to women feeling trapped and as if they have no choice but abortion, explaining why nearly 70% of women describe their abortions as inconsistent with their own values and preferences.

The same is true of abortion activists in government. Earlier this year, every single Senate Democrat voted against Students for Life Action’s Pregnant and Parenting Students’ Rights Act, a bill that would have simply required schools to list pro-life resources on their website alongside Planned Parenthood referrals.

These government abortion activists don’t just refuse to offer information on pro-life resources; in many cases, they actually mandate abortion coverage in their state health insurance plans (that also means it will be in student health plans).

States requiring that coverage include:

• California
  
• Colorado
  
• Delaware
  
• Illinois
  
• Maine
  
• Maryland
  
• Massachusetts
  
• Minnesota
  
• New Jersey
  
• New York
  
• Oregon
  
• Vermont
  
• Washington

What’s clear through all this? That so-called pro-choicers don’t actually care about choice. They want to force women to have abortions — and they want to force health care providers and insurers to provide and pay for those abortions. If that’s not dystopian, then nothing is.

LEARN MORE ABOUT PLAN B: https://studentsforlife.org/learn/planb/