Five states now require schools to offer pills on campus or make it available through an off-campus provider.

When college students head back to campus for the fall semester, more of them will have guaranteed access to abortion medication.

Colorado recently joined California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York in requiring public colleges and universities to provide abortion medication to students on campus or arrange to make it available to them through an off-campus provider.

Unlike the other states, Colorado’s new law also applies to private colleges and universities. However, Colorado schools are exempt if offering the medication would be “contrary to the institution’s sincerely held religious beliefs or practices” or if doing so would jeopardize a federal grant. Federal dollars cannot be used to pay for abortions except in limited circumstances.

All five states have enacted laws to expand access to abortion in recent years, both before and after the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v.........

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