After receiving significant pressure from students and the media about its health insurance policy covering abortion, the University of North Carolina (UNC) system will now give students the chance to opt-out of the coverage.
Students for Life, CitizenLink and other pro-life organizations sounded the alarm on Wednesday that the University of North Carolina system, which oversees 17 institutions, offered only one health insurance plan to uninsured students – and it covered abortion.
Erskine Bowles, president of the school system, directed Pearce and Pearce, the largest student health care insurance company in the nation, to contact students who purchased policies and offer them a chance to opt-out.
Kristan Hawkins with Students for Life is thankful students now have an option.
“The Board of Governors came out and said they were going to allow pro-life students to opt-out of abortion coverage ,” she said, “and that their health care money wouldn’t go for other women’s abortions.”
She said she would rather abortion not be included at all, because “Abortion is not health care.”
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