The University of Idaho’s general counsel issued new guidance about the state’s near-total abortion ban, alerting faculty and staff that the school should no longer offer birth control for students, a rare move for a state university.
University employees were also advised not to speak in support of abortion at work. If an employee appears to promote abortion, counsel in favor of abortion, or refer a student for an abortion procedure, they could face a felony conviction and be permanently barred from all future state employment, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post.
Condoms could be provided “for the purpose of helping prevent the spread of STDs,” according to the guidance — but not “for purposes of birth control.”Almost all of the universities providing clinical sexual health services in a 2020 American College Health Association survey offered contraceptives, with nearly three quarters of those responding providing emergency contraception options as well.
The school’s general counsel, Jim Craig, who did not sign his name to the email outlining the new guidance, did not respond to a request for comment.Leading antiabortion advocates have long held that they are not interested in restricting access to birth control.
“We always knew extremists wouldn’t stop at banning abortion; they’d target birth control next,” Rebecca Gibron, chief executive of Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, wrote in a statement. “The University of Idaho’s announcement is the canary in the coal mine, an early sign of the larger, coordinated effort to attack birth control access.”Many schools are still evaluating policies in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn.
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