Women at Fordham Say School Violates Its Own Birth Control Policy

She eventually stopped taking the shots, she says, only to find herself in the hospital with a ruptured cyst and a hernia.

Field recently went back to the health center to see if the university would prescribe birth control for her now, given her medical history. She’s waiting to feel better, she says, before going back on birth control, but she wanted to see how they’d respond. “When I was a freshman, I was scared,” she says. “[This time] I went in there and said, ‘Hey, can you prescribe this? I have the paperwork.'”

She was denied again.

Fordham’s senior director of communications Bob Howe can’t respond to any individual allegations, because of federal privacy laws around health records. But he did answer the Voice‘s request for comment with a statement reaffirming the Jesuit stance on birth control, adding:

“Regarding the allegation that students were denied hormone treatment for non-contraceptive reasons, we can say categorically that it isn’t University policy to do so. The Student Health Center does do diagnostics and hormone treatment (i.e.: birth control pills) for medical conditions as a matter of routine. Students can either be examined and have diagnostic work at the SHC, OR provide documentation from a physician if they prefer not to have the SHC conduct the exam and diagnostics.”

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