To remain transparent, Kaavya Saini serves as the DEI Chair of the Daily Nexus and did not edit this article.
UC Santa Barbara’s Students for Reproductive Justice held an abortion access informational event at the Student Resource Building on May 4. The event supplied free Plan B pills, condoms, pregnancy tests, dental dams and cup caps.
SRJ hosted “Abortion Access Now” to open conversations about abortion, provide resources and educate UCSB students. Sanjana Lingam / Daily Nexus
The event, titled “Abortion Access Now!”, offered a space where conversations about abortion policies were put into a national context, in particular educating attendees on how to be an active and effective advocate.
The Co-Chairs of Students for Reproductive Justice (SRJ) hosted the event to bring sexual health education, specifically around abortion, to campus. Third-year psychological & brain sciences major Kaavya Saini and third-year history and biology double major Samantha Heinz were the main organizers behind the event. Heinz mentioned that they promoted organization activity during spring quarter by providing condom ferries to drop free contraceptives around I.V.
Saini’s main goal in hosting this event was to continue SRJ’s mission to “globally reach out for giving access to abortion, but locally we aim to bring accessible free menstrual and contraceptive products for college students.”
“Another thing [SRJ] had done was restore the reproductive justice fund to where if you do receive either a free pregnancy test or a STI test at the Student Health Center, the record will not show,” Heinz said
Heinz clarified that this includes products students receive from the pharmacy that will show up as “Student Health Pharmacy” on their BARC account.
Saini explains the recently passed abortion policy, Assembly Bill (AB) 2540, provides California Community College students with accessible abortion resources.
SRJ board members presented the two main types of abortions, using medication or a surgical procedure, both of which are physician approved. They added that the UC Student Health Insurance Plan enables UCSB students to have safe and secure abortion accessibility. The presentation highlighted other resources including Planned Parenthood.
SRJ members mentioned that the topic of abortion needs to be approached with empathy on opposing sides to bring people together. Saini and Heinz both urged attendees to continue engaging and educating themselves on this topic during a sensitive time.
At the end of the event, an attendee who chose to remain anonymous emphasized the importance of groups like SRJ staying active to provide students with reproductive health resources.
“I hope that the organization continues to grow and stay active on campus because sexual health resources are a need especially in our current political climate,” the attendee said.
A version of this article appeared on p. 8 of the May 7 print edition of the Daily Nexus
Of coarse the FoxNews-whaching republitard’s what love there guns and diesel macho man trucks are opossed to abortion. Thay are morrans want wan’t to take away the writes of the womans. They are insensative and retarded and WE DEMOCRAT’S HATE THEM. IT TAKES” A VILLIGE—-VOTE DEMCORAT!
I knew “Brent Holmes” in his devious perverse ways would once again want to jump into the arena here first. I’m second this time. I support this women’s movement holistically with a very compassionate heart. I’m so relieved that the citizens of the great state of Arizona here finally came to their senses and wrote it relatively recently into the state’s constitution. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a native of Arizona, got it right the first time–the women’s right to choose should be allowed to the point of viability–six months. Now it is incumbent once again for the Democrats to restore… Read more »
Did you read recently about the Pope’s new Nike tennis shoes? Like the McDonald’s piece I recenly mentioned in the Nexus, this is a flagrant Faustiam pact and shows you how corrupt and deep unbridled commercialism runs in this myopic theological mindset! Demuirge commercialism won’t spread the “good news” here. The first century Gnostics weren’t having orgies or eating babies as depicted by those hateful early Church founders. In the contemporary world, this would be tantamount to slander! This is evidence of how they attempted to sway the masses, and as a result, look now at our horrible, corrupt, dystopian… Read more »
One consolation—Happy Mother’s Day to all those caring and sacrificing mothers.
I know how loving and singularly devoted my ex, Catherine, cared for my only son, Dennis. I am eternally grateful to her today.
In fact we were married this day, May 10th, in the year 1979. We honeymooned in south Lake Tahoe and saw both Kenny Rogers and George Carlin in nearby Reno. We won three times on the same slot machine.
It paid for our entire honeymoon expenses!
This just in–a 4.1 temblor has just struck in nearby Silver Springs, Nevada!
It has been felt in Reno and Tahoe—cosmic synchronicity at its finest here!
Believe me, it was felt in south Lake Tahoe–the snakes and nearby animals surely felt it even before it struck!
It was felt in south Lake Tahoe and Reno–the scientific evidence now shows it online, as was once my suspicion! Do your due diligence and research here! Come on, all of you there out in cyberspace! Prove me wrong here. State your case before the world! I dare you! And don’t use a “tacky” moniker.
Remember this, the Jews vilified snakes in their early writings of Genesis–perverting such mythology from the ancient Sumerians, where the snake was viewed positively. Indeed, the ancient caduceus
proves otherwise!
I believe in the crux ansata (Coptic Ankh) displayed on the final page of the Codex Tchacos. This is the internal mandala that shall guide me throughout the rest of my earthly life here.
It is super weird to watch you crash out and post increasingly random and rambling ranting posts that have nothing to do with the story. You doing ok? you seem to be losing it
Google currently is playing games with my ongoing twelve-year commentary.
If you want to read the full extent and breath of my sayings, now try the Daily Nexus archives. Thanks students! Much obliged! Goodnight to all.
Google AI mode has radically narrowed their focus on me today. It’s only partially true when you ask of it any question. It’s like a replay of the November, 2024 elections all over again, when science has proven that the election results were rigged by the big corporate media algorithms in Trump’s favor, as was the 2016 elections were rigged by Russian online bots.