The University of San Francisco is run by the Jesuits, a Catholic religious order.
But its student health insurance plan covers a number of services that are contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church, including abortion, abortifacient birth control, sterilization and sex-reassignment operations and hormones.
The 2021-2022 Student Health Plan is administered by Aetna. Numerous Catholic documents affirm the immorality of these services, including Humanae Vitae.
A review of the statement of benefits shows that the health insurance company covers 80 percent of the cost of abortion. The plan will also pay for “[s]urgical, hormone replacement therapy, and counseling treatment” which is under the section “gender reaffirming treatment.”
The Catholic university’s student plan will pay 100 percent of the cost for female students to get sterilized, which is also against Catholic teachings. Hormonal birth control, which can act as an abortifacient by preventing the implantation of a zygote, is also covered by the plan.
The University of San Francisco did not respond to two emailed requests for comment sent in the past week. The College Fix asked Kellie Samson, a media relations specialist at the university, if she could explain how the coverage of these services could be squared with Catholic teaching. The Fix asked if the faculty and staff health insurance plans covered these services, which would mean that the university itself likely subsidized part of the cost.
A review of the 2020-2021 health insurance plan shows that the Jesuit university covered these services last year, too….
Valerie Schmalz, the interim communications director who runs the pro-life office for the archdiocese, declined to comment on the issue….
The student insurance plan is not the only example of how the university promotes abortion. At least one of its leaders has ties to a facility that gives out abortion drugs.
Vice-Provost Julie Orio oversees student life activities at USF but has been on the board of Women’s Community Clinic, which hands out abortifacient birth control and the RU-486 abortion drugs.
She has worked at the Catholic university since 2012, according to her LinkedIn.
It does not list her as a board member at the Women’s Community Clinic and she is not currently listed on their list of trustees.
The above comes from an Aug. 10 story in the College Fix.
That they get no more money or students. Time for the alumni to speak out against their formerly Catholic university going full leftist. Nearly free abortions is probably just the top of the objectionable things happening at this school.
Doesn’t California require health plans to cover abortions?
All you need to look at who is running this University. The Jesuit. Need I say more
At some point, catholic schools and Jesuit schools must conform to the teachings of the Church.
If faculty and students don’t like catholic-appropriate insurance plans they can go to other schools.
If catholic-appropriate health plans make it more difficult to attract great teachers and great students, so be it.
Even a Jesuit school should have some semblance to a catholici school from time to time.
As I mentioned in previous post, if this was happening at a Catholic college, it would be unimaginable. But this is a Jesuit school.
I dont know about that look at University of San Diego
There a story here? This kind of progressive ideological agenda/campaign has been going on at USF (any California Jesuit educational organization, really) since the late 70’s….a browse through the Foghorn editions of the mid to late 1980’s is documentation of how when Jesuits are challenged on their progressive narrative, they get pretty testy…Remember that is when the SII of Fr. Fessio and orthodox students and professors became marginalized and exiled from the University.
Really interesting historical perspective that isn’t very flattering to the USF/San Francisco Jesuits
https://digitalcollections.usfca.edu/digital/collection/p15129coll8
Are abortions covered by private insurance?
Yes. California law requires most private health care plans, including employer and individual plans,
to cover all abortions without medical justification. The private insurance requirement to cover
abortions does not apply to multi-state plans participating in the Marketplace Exchange or to
employers who self-fund their plans. The requirement was challenged through a complaint to the
Office for Civil Rights, and was upheld.
So then the University of SF is just doing what it has to do under the law. It has no choice. It has to provide the coverage for abortions. Therefore, it’s a non-story. How many diocesan health plans also cover abortions for employees? Why pick on USF?
USF
The University of Sodom in Frisco
At least with the Jesuits the insane do not have to serve in the military to have their genitalia lopped off.
I graduated from Santa Clara and I am now ashamed. Gavin Newson is a graduate, and they have adopted every woke policy that the left produces
I don’t think that California law requires health plans from Catholic institutions to go against their religious beliefs.
God’s plans trumps human plans. The supernatural trumps the natural.. St.Ignatius is rolling over in his grave with the Jesuit order permitting this to happen.