Interstate College Students Facing New Uncertainties with Shifting Abortion Rules

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state leaders held a news conference Friday where they championed a vision of California as a sanctuary state for those seeking abortion and reproductive care.
51% : The ruling could also attract out-of-state students looking for medical schools and health care programs that offer a complete education in reproductive health care that includes abortion.
50% : Shannon Olivieri Hovis, the director of NARAL Pro-Choice California, advocated for a raft of state legislation from this legislative session -- 16 bills in all -- that will not only cement reproductive access in California but also for those seeking abortion from other states.
47% : University of California San Francisco has hosted and funded residents from Texas in the wake of a law that severely restricted access to abortion, according to Dr. Josie Urbina, a UCSF family planning fellow and clinical instructor in obstetrics and gynecology at San Francisco General Hospital.
46% : Californians' constitutional rights to abortion may be protected, but questions abound over what effect the Supreme Court's Friday decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will have on out-of-state students who come to the state's universities.
45% : As for the young Californians who leave the state to attend college in the 26 states expected to ban or severely restrict abortion, Hicks asked, "What rights do they have when they go there?"Unintended pregnancy and abortion rates are highest among those 18-24 years old -- the ages of most college-going students.
43% : That was part of the impetus behind a 2019 state law that requires student health care services clinics on California State University and University of California campuses to offer abortion by medication.
43% : Larissa Mercado-Lopez, a professor and department chair of women's, gender and sexuality studies at Fresno State, said she's following the implications the decision will have for birth control, same-sex marriage and the possible criminalization of miscarriage.
40% : Jodi Hicks, the president of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, said young people outside of California seeking abortion will now be faced with the daunting prospect of having to travel outside their state and navigate a new health care system.
33% : That includes the 16 states where abortion is illegal or will soon be illegal now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.

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