Study: Half of College Health Care Plans Pay for Abortions

by Steven Ertelt
Washington, DC
LifeNews.com
1/24/11

A new study finds almost half of the colleges and universities in the United States that offer students health care plans offer ones that pay for abortions.

A new study sponsored by Students for Life of America follows an August 2010 scandal involving the University of North Carolina, whose system mandated health care coverage for the 2010-2011 school year. UNC required its students to have health care and automatically enrolled them in a plan that covered elective abortions.

Students for Life conducted an investigation and pressured officials at UNC and in the state legislature to make changes. Their work revealed that taxpayer funds could be partially covering student abortions in North Carolina. the rest