Comments on: Abortions Now Covered For All Columbia Students

By: Maybe you didn't notice

Maybe you didn't notice — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:47:19 +0000

That was meant to be a reply to the person “Against.”

By: Maybe you didn't notice

Maybe you didn't notice — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:45:52 +0000

… all the free prophylactics Health also offers?

By: Alum

Alum — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:10:06 +0000

Reproductive justice is about more than just women. Abortion affects more than just women.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:40:43 +0000

This is disgusting. I guess it’s just another step toward utopia.

By: omg.

omg. — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:46:05 +0000

Now that abortions are covered, women will just go around having sex every night with any man they can find and simply go get an abortion in the morning on the way to class.

#saidnobodyever

By: BSL

BSL — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:02:00 +0000

You, sir, are a beacon of hope in a society plunging towards immorality and filth. I commend you.

By: I agree

I agree — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:33:36 +0000

What a troll. Because really everyone know that, if there’s consent on all sides, I CAN HAVE SEX WHENEVER THE FUCK I WANT. :)

By: Ummm

Ummm — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:03:19 +0000

Furthermore, there’s nothing wrong with more sex on campus, as long as it’s safe, sane and consensual.

By the way, I’m a girl and I like sex as much as the next person.

By: haha

haha — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:00:22 +0000

so the university must have been supporting misogyny and bigotry when they admitted you, huh? you suck at trolling. go away.

By: Van Owen

Van Owen — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:59:16 +0000

I want the umbilical cord!!!

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:53:22 +0000

Health Services has not yet announced where the money will come from. They’ve just said it won’t be from mandatory student fees. Hopefully, they’ll announce it in the next few weeks.

By: BC '15

BC '15 — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:48:24 +0000

It’s not an effect. Do you really think people in this community are going to have more unprotected sex simply because abortions are easier to get, if necessary? I highly doubt that. It’s a preventative measure, and I think CU students are aware of that. It’s a procedure that no one wants to go through. It’s incredibly insensitive of you to claim that the University is “supporting unprotected sex” by making abortions more accessible. Also, let’s remind ourselves that nothing is 100% effective. There are innumerable unwanted pregnancies that still result from having used some form of birth control that failed.

By: AndEnnuiGo

AndEnnuiGo — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:44:33 +0000

Access to abortion ≠ promiscuity or unprotected sex. This is the straw man I just warned about. (P.S. the track button kind of gave you up.)

By: AndEnnuiGo

AndEnnuiGo — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:42:03 +0000

We’re at a standoff. This is where we might normally drag scientific, philosophical, and religious ideas about where human–that is to say, sentient, though we’d undoubtedly get sucked into debates about the semantics–life begins and what constitutes a human being (or a “future citizen,” if you insist). Neither of us would give ground, because we’re operating from fundamentally different views on the subject, and though I doubt we’re terribly different from one another, this is a subject that quickly slips past reasonableness and into hyperemotionality, ad hominem attacks, straw man arguments, and other silliness. I disagree with your position: I believe that the assertion that safe, legal access to abortion increases promiscuity is incorrect and that your argument is based on moral/religious grounds–lacking objective validity–rather than practical ones. That’s my two cents. Please feel free to carry on with whatever outrage delights your heart.

By: Against

Against — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:35:06 +0000

It’s not that I’m completely against abortions, but is it really right to be supporting unprotected sex on a college campus, which is an effect of having readily available abortions?