The Condom Fairy has yet to RSVP.
But in the midst of the “fun” back-and-forth lurks a more startling allegation. Two women have come forward saying that the school’s medical center has violated its own policies regarding providing hormonal birth control for physical health reasons.
New York State requires the university’s health insurance to pay for birth-control pills. But because contraception goes against church doctrine, health providers at Fordham’s University Health Services will not prescribe them — meaning a student who’s on the Pill must obtain her prescription elsewhere. (For that matter, Health Services won’t prescribe any form of contraception or make referrals for abortions.)
But according to the school’s website, there’s a loophole: “University Health Services staff do make limited exceptions in writing appropriate prescriptions for the treatment of an existing medical condition accompanied by supporting documentation.”