Students from 14 different universities lobbied California’s state Assembly on Monday to pass a bill that would force all public universities provide medical abortion services. State Sen. Connie Leyva introduced the bill, SB 320, last year that would require all health centers within the University of California and California State University systems to provide medication abortion by 2022. The measure was inspired by a UC Berkeley student effort in 2016 when a student government passed a resolution urging the school’s health center to provide medical abortion services. Adiba Khan, author of the resolution, told NPR that she noticed that while her school’s health center offered multiple forms of contraception, it didn’t provide abortion services. Nearly 40 students from UC Berkeley, UCLA, Mills College, Humboldt State, Fresno State and other universities gathered in Sacramento to support the bill.

Source: Fox News May 23, 2018 09:00 UTC