It’s one of the most liberal college’s in the world. Now, if students have their way, they’ll be providing on-demand abortions on campus — and demanding taxpayers foot part of the bill.
Anthony Gockowski of Campus Reform reports:
The University of California in Berkeley (UCB) could provide on-campus access to abortions if a student senate bill successfully sways the administration.
Senate Resolution 69 (SR 69), a bill that would bring abortion providers to campus clinics, passed a final round of voting Wednesday during a weekly student senate meeting.
The bill argues that inaccessibility to abortion is a violation of women’s rights and impedes academic progress. Since, the bill suggests, women make up a majority of the undergraduate student population, it is only just they be provided with any means necessary to eradicate whatever may get in the way of academic success.
“When medication abortion is not available at UHS (University Health Services), students who are seeking an abortion face financial, time, and travel constraint burdens that create negative impacts on academic performance and mental health,” the bill states. “UHS is a health center dedicated to meeting the health needs of students in order for students to be able to upkeep their academic well-being. Abortion is a common health-care service and access to abortion is necessary and relevant in student life.”
The bill employs several statistics to reinforce its logic, including things like: women aged 18-24 account for 44 percent of all abortions in the United States, one in four women will have an abortion by age 30, and women make up 52 percent of UCB’s undergraduate population.
The argument, it seems, is that college-aged women, especially if they have a dominant presence on campus, deserve easy access to abortion since they are the demographic that is statistically most probable to need one in the first place.
The bill also notes that abortion services were available on campus in the 1980’s but have since been abolished because of a lack of trained abortion providers. Now, however, the bill states that there are many trained professionals working in the school’s health office who could very well provide students with abortions.
“Currently, Tang [Center, the school’s clinic] does have staff trained/skilled abortion providers and is able to provide medication abortion,” the bill states.
The bill neglects to explain where funding for on-campus abortions would come from. Since UCB is a public school, though, taxpayer dollars would likely help provide students with access to abortions.
Aanchal Chugh, primary sponsor of the bill, told Campus Reform she thinks funds for abortions should be taken from administrator’s paychecks.
“I believe the University should reorganize funds from the administration’s paychecks to university health services. Many of the administrators at UC Berkeley receive more than generous paychecks while they continue to put student health on the backburner,” Chugh said. “This resolution is demanding that the university reconsider and reprioritize its funding. Instead of investing money into the administration’s paychecks, the university should be investing in students’ health and safety needs.”
Campus Reform reached out to Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and Provost Claude Steele to see if either would be willing to take a pay cut in order to fund abortions but neither replied in time for publication. This story will be updated if a response is received.
Whether administrators are willing to take a pay cut or not, Chugh says she does not think students should have to contribute funds for these on-campus abortions in any way.
“The resolution does not expect students to pay for these services as I, and those who voted for it, believe that health is a right not a privilege,” she added. “The university should be providing this right to all students.”
After several calls, UCB’s Executive Director of Communications and Media Relations Roqua Montez responded by email to explain that “the question is larger than the one regarding cost.”
Campus Reform reached out Monday to ask exclusively about the potential cost of bringing abortions to campus.
Montez did, however, reiterate the school’s full support of a woman’s right to abortion.
“UC Berkeley’s University Health Services fully supports women’s access to the full spectrum of contraception, emergency contraception, abortion and other pregnancy alternatives,” Montez said. “Fortunately, the Berkeley campus is surrounded by a high-quality, well-established network of health providers who are expert [sic] in this area.”
This story first appeared on Campus Reform.
Destroy the future. Then they call themselves liberal.
These kids condem themselves to hell before they graduate and call it a “RIGHT” F them I am not paying for irresponsible kids that belong to assholes who refused to raise them right
I don’t believe that most of the parents even KNOW what their kidsRe being taught in college other than partying.
They need to learn to exercise restraint, and if not, then PREVENTION! And finally, there is the morning after drug.
If they are so worried about their education, they can stop sleeping around and concentrate on getting one! If for some unfathomable reason, this should be approved, there should be a limit set. Once per student, eg., to be used in case of rape. This should not be a vehicle for repetitive abortion. How about a lesson in responsibility!
These kids need to be studying and keep their legs together. How dare they think other people should pay for their irresponsibility. It is not a right to kill an innocent fetus because they can’t use birth control or stop sleeping around. What is this world coming to?
These children need to grow up. If they want to not be parents either no sex or birth control. CA pays for birth control. AIDS AND HEPC ARE TRANSMITTED THROUGH SEX!
if the girls don’t want to get pregnant, they shouldn’t fuk around with every guy on campus.
Right on Deb, these liberal students think they should have entitlements like welfare bums. Have they ever heard of abstinence?
The answer to the student body is simple NO ABORTIONS will be covered. What the school (University) will do is have instructors hold classes on how to keep your knees together and how to scream out loud NO!. Whistles will also be provided free of charge on request.
I cud help buy the whistles.
Are you kidding — were’re talking about UC Berkeley. That school has been nothing but a sh!tbed school full of scum buckets that think the world owes them a living. They should have closed that scum ridden school back in the 60s.
Exactly
Now you know why the two maniacs running on the Dem. ticket want free college. So more young people can screw around doing nothing but learning the liberal nonsense and keep expecting free, free, free all their miserable lives.
RIGT ON!!!
Maybe you should go to school and learn to spell.
Gerry, you are an absolute idiot!
Sally, Gerry knows! Some, many, most like you don’t know spit and won’t learn spit at UC Berkeley. Learning to think independently and rationally is more important than grammar and spelling. Learn to be responsible for your actions and then maybe you have the right you seem to think is freely given.
Amen! My sentiments exactly!!!
Good ideas.
I am surprised God hasn’t destroyed us by now the way He did Sodom and Gomorrah. So much immorality and filth now going on in our society and globally.
Yes that’s how ISIS is able to take advantage of our weakness, promiscuity and lack of faith. God help ud
SHE IS EXACTLY RIGHT!!!
You are one of the few who even mentions the laws of God. Thank you. There is a day of reckoning coming.
Immoral is the word for these creeps, that act like alley cats.
You want to “eradicate,” things that stand in the way of academic success? Buy these ladies a, “chastity belt.” If all else fails use a MFing condum. Are these college students so Fing dumb as to not know what causes pregnancies?
There are male and female condoms. Also males need to carry condoms if they want sex. Kick both out of school. Teach people to be responsible.
Kick both out. That is the only way attention to the problem will come.
one aspirin tablet will keep them from get pregnant.
place the aspirin between their knees and hold it there.
Those kids do not realize that an abortion kills a part of them physically, mentally and spiritually! God gave them a body to produce children, not just have pleasure and destroy them!. Their bodies are special and should not be ruined by lack of good judgment. Jesus loves them and their child also!
Also the adoption of a baby costs more than a brand new car. No such thing as an unwanted baby. Just brainwashed people.
I have an idea. Why don’t all the God Fearing, Law Abiding, Right Wing, Common Sense people MOVE THE Fμ€K outta California!
Then, there’ll only be people like Pelosi left. That way only the only idiots taxed will be Pelosi! Wouldn’t that be great!
The non Christians who have sense can join you.
I moved out of California, the state I was born in. Moved out in 1973. It once was a beautiful state. Liberalism has destroyed it.
what total liberal bullshit
Yeah, liberal sluts who have not learned to use protection in the first place! They supposed to be learning and earning a degree not sleeping with every Tom, Dick and Harry earning an unwanted pregnancy. No wonder kids can’t find a job after graduation, they don’t look in the right place, like on the nearest street corner!
UNIVERSITY’S ARE ONLY BROTHELS ANYWAY. A COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY AND MORALS. PARENTS SAVE AND SLAVE TO SEND THEIR CHILD TO COLLEGE AND ALL THEY GET BACK IS AN ATHEISTIC COMMUNIST. LATEST PRIVATE POLL SHOWS THE NATION IS BETWEEN 40-50% COMMUNIST. NO GOD NO COUNTRY.
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Some educators say that most college grads today have educational and social skills that wouldn’t get them out of the 8th grade in the 1970’s or 80’s. I believe it.
How right you are. And the teachers/professors teaching them communism and socialism is good, and that they are entitled to have all kinds of free programs handed to them free of charge (to them) so they don’t have to work and be self-supporting.
SO RIGHT…aka…BERNIE SANDERS. KEEP ON VOTING THOSE STUPID IMMORAL DEMOCRAPS IN. PRETTY SOON, WE WILL HAVE NO COUNTRY AT ALL LEFT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
H Clinton is worse.
Amen
depends on the college
Where the hell are the parents of these pampered babies, having indiscriminate sex without responsibility and expect the taxpayer to pay for “education ” and abortions. Why are they allowing their kids to be indoctrinated and become jelly. They are paying the bills and THEY HAVE TO BE RESPONSIBLE! Taxpayers have had enough! These babies need to grow up fast and go get jobs to support themselves and pay for their loose morals!
Where the hell are the parents of these pampered babies, having indiscriminate sex without responsibility and expect the taxpayer to pay for “education ” and abortions. Why are they allowing their kids to be indoctrinated and become jelly. They are paying the bills and THEY HAVE TO BE RESPONSIBLE! Taxpayers have had enough! These babies need to grow up fast and go get jobs to support themselves and pay for their loose morals! While we are at it let
It is amazing to me this exact same bunch are totaly against
the death Penalty!! Really
And most of these kids voting at the primary for Bernie, and so proud of themselves!!
If we are lucky enough for them not to vote fro H Clinton.
we need to bring back electric chair and not appoint supreme court of old farts and out-of-touch idiots but VOTE them in and LIMIT their terms to 2-5 years.
Liberalism sucks! All they care about is tearing things down for the sake of tearing things down. Anarchy, Godlessness, hatred are the goals of their reckless agenda. Could you imagine if they proposed abstinence instead of abortion? Personal responsibility instead of the blame game? Boy would that be refreshing!
SICK BASTERDS
Let the women decide! Not us. Too many babies born with no future, and have the US support them. They deserve more!!!
I moved out of California, the state I was born in. Moved out in 1973. It once was a beautiful state. Liberalism has destroyed it.
These “ladies” are in college but don’t know enough about where babies come from not to get pregnant? They have time to get pregnant but no time to buy condoms or the pill.
They do not care the problem is that simple.
Are they that irresponsible, don’t get pregnant in the first place . Why should they destroy a life because they are so irresponsible. When are they going to take responsibility for there choices. We should not have to pay for them to kill a baby and yes it’s a baby, even though planned parenthood tells them it isn’t.
This is beyond absurd! Unwanted pregnancy is preventable. So, these kids think the school should help them murder their unborn child? To some people these days, sex is entertainment without any thought given to the consequences. You play the game, you pay the price!
And, girls, it is YOU who always pays the price for the entertainment/conquest you provide to the boys. Wise up! They don’t ever get pregnant and they don’t care if YOU do. It doesn’t affect THEIR career. Have some self-esteem and get the academic knowledge you need to have a good career. You may have to support yourself the rest of your life. I did, when my husband died and I was left with a 6-month-old child to raise and support by myself. It isn’t easy, let me tell you…so prepare yourself for the “unknown” happenings in your future. Think about what kind of future you want and work to get it. It’s worth it!
Perfect comment to the girls in college
And the kicker is, they marry a virgin.
If these students are interested in academic progress they should spend less time having sex and devote more time to their studies. What is overlooked in all this is that rampant sex also creates an environment for the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. There are only certain times in a cycle when a woman can get pregnant but STDs can be passed from one person to another any day.
The university should not have to spend education dollars to operate a baby slaughter center.
Berkeley has always been leftist, arrogant and beyond stupid to crazy. The classrooms are trash strewn because they respect no one, including themselves. The whole city of Berkeley is a lost cause and I never like having to go there for anything. Parents who can afford to send their children there should rethink and send then to Hillsdale to become real Americans instead of brainwashed idiots. Personally, I would never hire any one of them, although many are very smart. If they don’t like what the university does, then go elsewhere! Why do they think the university owes them anything beyond an education? Because the fed and teacher-owned education systems in our country were co-opted when the DNC published on the Congressional Record their Communist Manifesto to take over America in 44 steps, and today’s schools are pushing communism and the students’ parents are too dumb or disinterested to know what they are paying for called “an education”. Our Constitutional rights are denied, they know nothing of our history, or even current happenings, and thus we need to be ready to overthrow this rogue government and all legislatures that are daily working to deny us OUR American and OUR rights. Join the Convention of the States and you will learn what is transpiring to own you and me as slaves to a few leftists in and out of our country. Think the puppeteers of the empty suit, the NWO (New World Order for you who are slow in catching up), and the UN which has always hated America and our way of life and freedom. It is up to each of us to decide if we want our America back or not. Having lived and worked outside the USA, I am so afraid we will be overthrown very soon if we take no action. Look at other countries who have fallen – Europe, some of the Northern countries, some in Latin America, etc. Scares me down to my bones!
I have a novel idea men keep it in your pants and woman keep your legs closed! remember your parents worked hard to get you where you are today your there to learn and to better yourself your not there to party wise up
when I was in High School, the superintendant called all the boys in a room and when he got up in front of the group hIs face was red as all hell, and he called on another teacher to address the group..
It was a very long session, his words was, ” YOU LITTLE BASTARDS SHOULD KEEP YOUR LITTLE TALLLIWHACKER IN YOUR PANTS UNTIL YOU’RE OLD ENOUGH TO ;USE IT.” SESSION ENDED AND GROUP DISMISSED.
When in the name of Commonsense, Logic and GOD are the morons at the top going to act like responsible adults.
Do they give their own birthed (in their case) Creatures “EVERYTHING” they demand? Probably.
Well, STOP IT! Say: “No”, you know: “Say NO To Drugs” Say NO to making yourself a slut, a pimp, an abortion crazed puke because NO ONE SAID NO to the previous categories.
Good God Almighty people this is the GIMMIE-GENERATION, have you not had enough?
Did you not work and were responsible for yourself?
Did anyone pay your way?
Ladies (and i use that term very loosely), if you had sense enough to abstain you wouldn’t need an abortion. If you can’t control yourself, then perhaps you could interest your partner in the latest forms of birth control, also known as rubbers.
These liberals act more like locusts everyday. They eat and destroy everything in their path, then sit up in trees demanding the rest of us plant and build it back up so they can do it again. Let them eat cake until they learn how to bake one with their own money.
Joseph Ferrari says it perfectly above!!!
Can college students spell “CONDOMS”???These college students want to be treated like ADULTS!!! How about they act like ADULTS!!! That or maybe use COMMON SENSE!!!!!
Perhaps if these students would concentrate on the Senate Resolution Number, they could prevent getting pregnant and still have the fun they are seeking. Actually, since there are more women on campus than men they may prefer 138.
California is well known as the Blue State … welfare, food cards, subsidized apartments, unmarried mothers, free grants for schooling, atheism, drug addiction, high rates of alcoholism, inter-racial anything goes sex, college graduates with 8th grade levels of behavior and intellect, dysfunctional families, mental illness.
Maybe the fault line will some day play a part in building a new , much smaller state , with very different people …
Perhaps the only upside to this is a DECREASE in future LIBERAL/PROGRESSIVES in this country.
I’d prefer that they gave them abortions rather than condoms!!! (planned extinction)
This is absolutely absurd. The university should not pay for abortions. They should not provide anything but the education that the student pays for. (If they pay) What in the world has become of the United States? No morals, values, it’s all about “me” and what can I get for free. I myself have worked very hard for my education, and I believe that one appreciates an education more if they work for it.
They already get free birth control, are they so stupid they can’t use it, How many abortions this sounds like a lot. As long as they pay for their own abortion. Liberals are just criminals not in jail at this time. Their whole base is has nothing but Criminal intent
A different thought on abortion. If you believe in God and heaven, then this thought may make you think before you have an abortion. In the movie, Heaven Is For Real, Colton Burpo is a young boy having an emergency appendectomy and dies and the doctors are able to bring him back from death’s door. As time goes on, he tells his parents of experiences he had in Heaven…the beauty, meeting Jesus and talking with God, the beautiful colors, meeting his great-grandfather, etc. One of the things he tells his mother is that he saw his sister there. He said she told him that she “died in mommy’s tummy”. His mother was startled – she had never told him about her miscarriage. The book and movie are based on a true story – read the book, it is fascinating. We studied the book at church and it is really fascinating and will make you THINK.
Anyway, the thought came to me that IF Colton met in Heaven the child his mother miscarried, then it is safe to assume that all those aborted babies are there, too. Therefore, if you abort your baby, you may meet them someday (if you get to Heaven) and be asked “Why did you deprive me of the gift of life?” What will your answer be? “You were inconvenient for me?”
My own mother also had a miscarriage – I may meet my sibling in Heaven. That is exciting.
Nora B, I read every post and find yours to be the most sensible. May God bless you and may every woman who has murdered a child meet them face to face in Heaven……..not sure if Mom will make it through the pearly gates, though.
I wonder how much education these young females receive about the development of their baby and facts about how much pain the baby will endure during the act of abortion? Or, are they told “it’s just a mass of cells”. These females should be required to first read “Who Broke the Baby?” prior to their willful and sinful killing of their own child. How tragic that their unwritten educational resume is “I chose to kill my baby during my college days.”
Require them is see a sonogram so they have science they have to deal with. All women and men should see a sonogram of a baby.
The Abortion
I don’t say its good or bad
’cause whichever path you take
The Decision ways
for the rest of your life
(‘tho not so hard on the dad?)
The pain
of not knowing
if you chose wrong or right
haunts your every
day and your every night
Even if you believed it was o.k.
when you did it–
and now you fully believe
the opposite–
You can never undue
The terrible
Unspeakable action
Nor can your body
that bore the child
for a while
plead innocent.
Let the student and the boyfriend pay for their own obortion no taxpayers should have to pay for college kids to have sex what happened to the students taken precautions. They want a education well having sex and not taking precautions is one educational point they want forget. How about making sex on campus illegal. No sex in the dorm or on any college property.
Make the parents of the dumb a– kid pay for it.
Since when are college campuses being used as health care facilities for those that should be expelled from the college for their audacious behavior. Get back to the intent to the classroom and assignments, to teach people the disciplines and competencies required in their life beyond the campus.
Hey Berkeley…I have a novel idea…how about promoting no sex before marriage?
I am sad & angry that college campuses would even consider allowing abortions on campus. If this is the case then are high schools next with no parental consent? 9/11 was already God’s judgement to America for abortions. It was prophesied in Isaiah 9:11. Read the book The Harbinger. The Jews were sent into Babylonian captivity for 70 yrs. for passing their children through the fire, Leviticus 18:21. This is why it’s important to have pro-life candidates in office & on the Supreme Court. Seven years later, in 2008, to the month, America had an economic crisis, the fall of The Lehman Brothers, which was another form of God’s judgement. If abortion doesn’t end soon we will have a complete Communist takeover. The movie, Red Dawn, is a prophetic movie of what will happen in America if abortion doesn’t end. If Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders becomes president their will be no hope for America.
Most of the students are in college at the expense of someone else and it’s simply a place to hang out drink ,have sex and now murder the babies of a careless night of adulterated sex with someone they probably don’t know their first name. No abortion for eliminating ,as what one of the commenters said, something that would get in the way of their degree. You don’t have to be a Bible thumper to see where society is going and the eventual failure of our nation just as it has in history for all super powers, the lack of family unit and morality .
Abortions should not be used as a form of birth control let alone be paid for by tax payers. Didn’t these women ever hear of the pill or condoms or the morning after pill? How very sad – we will go down in history as baby killers. They have chosen to be irresponsible and need to be accountable for their actions. If you want to play you must pay (the consequences). Lets use some common sense and stop trying to be so politically correct.
I wonder what these students would think if their parents had considered aborting them?
Do you really think Ayers will give up any of his salary to provide the on campus killings.
They can have their abortions all they want as long they foot the bill. It their life and their conscious they have to live with.
Will this be ok for Muslim girls/ladies??
How convenient that the males are not held accountable for creating a child. And how free sex really isn’t free and that women have no value except as sexual objects. Being responsible means paying for your own mistakes.
I SIMPLY CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT I AM READING ,COLLEGE PROFESSORS LIKE BOMB MAKER & BILL AIRES ARE NOT TEACHING EDUCATION BUT ARE ADMINISTERING THERE IDEOLOGY ON OUR STUDENTS ! THIS IS NOT WHAT WE PAY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO PROVIDE OUR CHILDREN AN EDUCATION ! NOT TO BR RADICALIZED !
Yes California is full of this on a 4 year college level.
The ahhh…..ladies should keep their leg crossed!
This is liberal stupidity at its best.
Why should anybody treat these
Kids as equals.. theyre not. Why should
Anyone even acknowledge their
Existence. These people are prime examples
Of sub human. Parents if youre paying
For college education..maybe you
Should check it out. Of course beware
That these lovely children you
Produced may sue you.
WTF, No way in hell should my tax dollars get used for abortions!!!!
I want a new car, but don’t expect taxpayers to pay for it.
People need to be held accountable for their actions.
Nobody learns until they are hit in the pocketbook.
For an alcoholic or drug addict to be successfully treated they have to hit bottom. This news about this school shouldn’t be that surprising. I imagine they already have abortion clinics nearby anyway. I don’t know when our society will hit bottom. Surprisingly, we probably have a ways to go. But we can’t start to recover until we hit this ‘bottom.’ For all of you who believe in faith and family, you have a tough road ahead. Sorry, but that’s the truth.
Not meant for those who were raped, incest, or those women who’s pregnancy is endangering their life; the rest….
“students who are seeking an abortion face financial, time, and travel constraint burdens that create negative impacts on academic performance and mental health” – somehow you managed the finance, time and travel when you were getting pregnant with no concerns for the possible negative impacts on academic performance and mental health; perhaps the other person who contributed to the pregnancy should participate in this aspect also. But nothing is free my dear “little snow flakes”.
Idiocy, organized on a grand scale. Haven’t these intellectual giants heard of contraceptives?
Are these students saying that they do not have a voice in the decision to have sex or not, therefore; they must have a choice in abortion or not. I do believe they have a choice. Just don’t have unprotected sex. Then the taxpayers will not have to pay for your ignorance. If that fails ask mom and dad, or; get a job.
@Henry, I would have their parents buy condoms. If they don’the do it, then have them pay for the chastity belt and accompanying lock. If they still don’t want to pay for these, then they’ll have to pay for the abortions. If parents still don’t want to pay for the abortions, then the boys will be at a disadvantage. As administrator for the business will give students two choises: 1. girls must abstain from sex or 2. Wear a chastity belt with a guillotine inside it. I am sure boys will be fully studying and no sex.
For these idiots, they should just hand out coat hangers.
This whole thing is absurd! If they do not want to have a baby they should abstain from intercourse.
Almost all of these comments register as no more than the stupid ramblings of ignorant idiots. Berkeley has been recognized as one of the great universities and institutions of the world. College is a time and an opportunity to explore and learn great things and to prepare ones self to participate as an active and productive member of society. the average age of the majority of students attending Berkeley are older than most of the comments recognize. These are adults and sex is a part of the adult world and responsible sex is very important. I don’t believe the University should be paying for or encouraging abortions. There are plenty of outside avenues for students wishing to abort. I also believe the students ought to accept responsibility for their actions and pay the costs. However, which one of you commenters leaving a lot of vile comments did not and have not engaged in similar activities in your younger years or even as adults when you went through divorces, re-married, etc. Are you idiots really that pious. Please don’t pretend to tell all of us that you are no less guilty of the same types of conduct that you are willing to condemn and so up in arms about. But, some of these students are young and were not brought up by their families to believe in or accept responsibility and this is not the result of attending Berkeley, it is the result caused by families that neglected the teaching and upbringing of their kids. How dare you criticize the kids and the University. You should have done your jobs as parents. On top of this, you have democratic candidates that preach no responsibility and encourage the free access to everything and getting stuff for free. What did you expect?
All of you idiot commenters missed the real point and the bottom line. You, as parents, were the parties that were responsible for teaching responsibility, direction and appropriate behavior to your kids and yes, the types of responsibility that would have lead many to use some form of protection in their sexual relations. You are to blame for irresponsible behavior and other mishaps, not only concerning birth control but in lots of cases like driving, drinking alcohol, drugs and texting…just to name a few. Now, you seek to put all of the blame on your kids but you have to share this blame. They are the result of you and hopefully in attending one of the world’s great Universities, they will learn and prosper from their mishaps. No credit to you.
How infuriating. I thought colleges were supposed to be for learning, not for abortions.