A large percentage of abortions are performed on college-age women. These women often feel forced to choose between their education and their baby. Groups like Feminists for Life have college outreach programs where they try to encourage colleges and universities to provide services to pregnant and parenting students. This pro-life group believes that no woman should be forced to sacrifice her baby in order to have an education.
The problem is real. Frederica Mathews-Green writes:
“A student at an Ivy League college told the author that the campus health center refers about 50 women a year for abortions; yet in the previous five years the number of students who continued their pregnancies totaled zero.”
Frederica Mathews-Green. Real Choices: Offering Practical, Life-Affirming Alternatives to Abortion (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Books, 1994) 162
