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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Kate McGee

Texas universities grapple with how to provide reproductive health care information to students amid new abortion laws

Nikita Kakkad holds a box of emergency contraception supplies that she delivers to anonymous students on campus as requested. July 15, 2022.
UT Austin junior Nikita Kakkad holds a box of emergency contraception supplies that she delivers to anonymous students on campus as requested. (Credit: Cindy Elizabeth for The Texas Tribune)

Up until a few weeks ago, the website for the University of Texas at Austin’s health center laid out three options for pregnant students to possibly pursue: they can carry the pregnancy to term and raise the child, put the baby up for adoption or terminate the pregnancy.

When the state enacted a law in September that prohibited abortion after about six weeks, the website added language making note of the restriction.

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