Give Uter-Us Our Rights!
Students for Choice and Socialist Feminist Commitee #35.4
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The Socialist Feminist Committee and Students for Choice are fighting together to get medication abortion on campus! Misoprostol, also known as the abortion pill, is one of the most demanded basic needs that is not provided by the university. The fight for this service has been going on for a long time in the state legislature, but we refuse to wait for politicians and shareholders to decide that we are allowed control over our own bodies. Instead, we choose to organize and take action to get what we need.
Our current university system is blocking students from accessing the reproductive care that they deserve while our country’s government is actively participating in the removal of bodily autonomy rights.
As students of the University of Oregon and residents of the state of Oregon, we are fortunate to live in an area that allows access to abortion without intervention. This does not take into account the economic and social difficulties that many face when in a situation concerning their own reproductive rights. Just because we have some access where we currently live, this does not mean that there are not millions of individuals that live in other areas of this nation who have to fight for their own bodily autonomy every single day. With the repeal of Roe v. Wade and a large increase in anti abortion care legislation being passed around the nation, it is of the utmost importance that we fight for reproductive rights not only on the UO campus, but also for the greater movement.
We are actively working on a campaign and petition which focuses on calling out the University of Oregon Health Services for their lack of support towards abortion care on campus. The Socialist Feminist Committee and Students for Choice are petitioning for the university to provide on-demand abortion medication and informed consent gender affirming care. These two are the most in demand services that students at the University of Oregon need, and we need it now. With the closure of Peacehealth hospitals, there will be a visible gap in the access to trans and reproductive healthcare that we need. Oregon and the University promote themselves as an inclusive and progressive campus, but we must be aware of the capitalistic systems that control whether or not we get a Bodacious campaign for the Heisman trophy or if we help students in need with reproductive justice and trans healthcare. We are working with QA3 to develop details of the HRT petition and we are working with S4C to develop the abortion pill petition.
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