Activists, students raise concerns over reproductive health access following University of Idaho...

Abortion is not general healthcare

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."The White House weighed in by tweet, writing nothing under Idaho law justified denying students access to contraception, saying the policies were the results of “extreme abortion bans.”

Fourth-year student Emily Nunes says she was shocked when she heard about what the email said.

“I thought at first it was going to be an email kind of helping us navigate these new laws in a positive way,” she said.

She hoped they would offer them help to figure out how to access resources students might still need, she said. Instead, it focused on restrictions.

“To not even be able to provide counsel is ridiculous to me,” she said, adding the policies were “way, way backwards.”

Gritman Medical Center, which contracts health care with the university, said in a statement it will continue to provide access to contraceptives and birth control, and the school’s memo will not change how they provide health care to students.

The University of Idaho declined to be interviewed for this story."