UO to offer medication abortion through University Health Services starting fall 2026

University Health Services at the University of Oregon will begin offering medication abortion starting in the fall term of 2026, the university and Associated Students of the University of Oregon announced. The service will use medication commonly prescribed as mifepristone and misoprostol and will be provided at the UHS clinic on 13th Avenue in Eugene, bringing on‑campus reproductive care to students who until now have had to go off campus for abortions.

Bringing medication abortion to UHS could shorten or eliminate trips to community providers for many students. UWire reported students currently travel to the Planned Parenthood Eugene‑Springfield Health Center about two miles from campus; the university’s Health UO page describes a partnership with Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon’s health center a mile from campus. Health UO lists Planned Parenthood’s telemedicine option for medication abortion, in‑clinic procedures, expert triage support for after‑care and access to patient financial support.

The approval follows an organized student campaign that accelerated in fall 2025. Student groups that formed a coalition include the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, UO Young Democratic Socialists of America (UOYDSA/YDSA), UO Students for Choice (S4C) and the Blossom Empowerment Project, according to reporting and student statements. Moreno reflected on the campaign’s momentum after the spring 2025 student campaign: “When UO Student Power ran in the spring of 2025, we knew some of our promises were ambitious and sometimes called impossible. One thing has proven true time and time again: This is OUR university, and students’ power to create the campus we want to see is REAL.” Student organizer Ford emphasized the political dimension: “You have seen a lot of universities caving to the pressure the Trump administration has put on them, and I think it’s really important that our university doesn’t do that, and one of the ways to do that is by getting medication abortion on campus,” Ford said.

University communications have highlighted UHS’s role in expanding affordable, accessible reproductive healthcare; Health UO posts state plainly, “Abortion is legal in Oregon; it is your right. UHS is committed to keeping it that way.” Health UO also says, “UHS is actively monitoring safe, accessible, trauma‑informed abortion options in our community. If access becomes limited in Eugene, UHS is prepared to offer medication abortions at our clinic.”

Operational details remain to be finalized publicly. UHS already provides sexual health and contraception services—UHS pharmacists can prescribe birth control pills and patches and students can make contraception appointments—but sources do not yet specify staffing, pharmacy stocking of mifepristone, appointment protocols, insurance or financial-assistance logistics for the medication abortion program scheduled for fall 2026.

The move places UO among the first Oregon universities to offer on‑campus medication abortion since the national shift after the 2022 Dobbs decision and amid the state‑level debate that saw a 2023 bill to require public universities to provide on‑campus medication abortion fail. A Daily Emerald photo of the UHS building on 13th Avenue was credited to Eric Becker/Emerald; the student paper included an editor’s note clarifying that advertising on its site—specifically a Planned Parenthood campaign—does not influence newsroom reporting or editorial decisions. UHS’s planned fall 2026 start marks the next step in a multi‑year student campaign to expand reproductive care on campus.