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Education leaders share the same sentiment that having access to abortion is critical to women's success in college.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Vice President Kamala Harris hosted a roundtable discussion to promote abortion with several higher education leaders on Monday.
Breaking with trans ideology, Harris referred to the situation “women” faced when it comes to being pregnant.
The possibility of further abortion bans “will impact, more specifically, women who are attending our colleges and universities,” the vice president said. “The principles that are at stake are of course that we must trust the women of America to make those most intimate decisions for themselves, and if they choose in consultation with their family members, with their faith leader and with their physician,” she said.
“But the government should not be making this decision for her,” Harris said. She boasted of the Biden administration’s efforts to use taxpayer dollars to help women travel to other states to kill their babies through abortion.
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said that the possible restrictions on abortion compounded other problems that COVID brought about.
“The Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs case has the potential to hurt students, faculty and staff in our nation’s higher education institutions,” Cardona said. There is “now … a new set of barriers to accessing health care, at a time when the pandemic has already put a strain on their mental health and overall wellness many colleges and universities are also concerned about how the decision will impact their medical teaching” as well as “research” and serving their “communities.”
Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, bemoaned the “patchwork” laws on abortion that universities would now have to face, because the Supreme Court affirmed that states have the right to regulate abortion.
“The biggest challenge that schools, faculty, staff and students face today is the confusion and uncertainty around a 50-state patchwork quilt of varying laws and guidance that, frankly, has only become more complex and more chaotic with the Dobbs decision,” according to Mitchell. “So the clock is ticking on every campus, in every university in America, to figure out what can and cannot be done to support students, faculty and staff.”
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Kamala Harris hosts discussion on 'challenges' of pro-life laws with pro-abortion university leaders - LifeSite
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Vice President Kamala Harris hosted a roundtable discussion to promote abortion with several higher education leaders on Monday.
Breaking with trans ideology, Harris referred to the situation “women” faced when it comes to being pregnant.
The possibility of further abortion bans “will impact, more specifically, women who are attending our colleges and universities,” the vice president said. “The principles that are at stake are of course that we must trust the women of America to make those most intimate decisions for themselves, and if they choose in consultation with their family members, with their faith leader and with their physician,” she said.
“But the government should not be making this decision for her,” Harris said. She boasted of the Biden administration’s efforts to use taxpayer dollars to help women travel to other states to kill their babies through abortion.
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said that the possible restrictions on abortion compounded other problems that COVID brought about.
“The Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs case has the potential to hurt students, faculty and staff in our nation’s higher education institutions,” Cardona said. There is “now … a new set of barriers to accessing health care, at a time when the pandemic has already put a strain on their mental health and overall wellness many colleges and universities are also concerned about how the decision will impact their medical teaching” as well as “research” and serving their “communities.”
Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, bemoaned the “patchwork” laws on abortion that universities would now have to face, because the Supreme Court affirmed that states have the right to regulate abortion.
“The biggest challenge that schools, faculty, staff and students face today is the confusion and uncertainty around a 50-state patchwork quilt of varying laws and guidance that, frankly, has only become more complex and more chaotic with the Dobbs decision,” according to Mitchell. “So the clock is ticking on every campus, in every university in America, to figure out what can and cannot be done to support students, faculty and staff.”
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Kamala Harris hosts discussion on 'challenges' of pro-life laws with pro-abortion university leaders - LifeSite
