All universities in Colorado with a student health center will be required to hand out dangerous abortion drugs to college students or help them obtain them from an outside source under a new law.

House Bill 26-1335, signed by Democratic Governor Jared Polis on May 28, orders every university with a health center, with a few exceptions, to make abortion drugs easily available beginning with the 2027-28 school year.

The legislation says it advances the goal of “gender equity” and ensures “women, transgender men, and nonbinary individuals” can access “abortion medication services.”

Religious institutions can be exempt from the legislation.

Polis said he signed the bill in the name of “freedom.”

“While politicians in other states are working to take away options and insert government into personal healthcare decisions, we are doing the opposite. Colorado is leading in protecting freedom, privacy, and expanding access to healthcare — not taking it away,” the governor told The Center Square.

Others echoed the talking point that this law is about healthcare.

“This law will ensure that students who rely on campus health centers are able to access the healthcare they need, when they need it, where they are,” state senator Katie Wallace stated in a news release.

Other states, including California, Massachusetts, and Illinois, have similar laws.

Yet experts have raised concerns about handing out powerful chemical abortion drugs to young women who will then take the pills back to their dorm rooms or apartments.

In addition to the fact that the drugs end an innocent human life, they can also be dangerous for the woman taking them.

A comprehensive Ethics and Public Policy Center study that looked at abortion drugs from 2017 to 2023 “found that 10.93 percent of women experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion.”

“This means that the real-world rate of serious adverse events following mifepristone abortions is at least 22 times as high as the summary figure of ‘less than 0.5 percent’ in clinical trials reported on the drug label,” the scholars argued.

Others warn about the psychological effects of the law.

The Colorado Catholic Conference told The College Fix that this bill “will force college-aged women into an isolated environment with one perceived option: abortion.”

Colorado Democrats think they are helping women by making it easy for them to get dangerous, life-ending abortion drugs. But all they are really doing is setting them up for the chance of short-term physical pain and long-term psychological damage.

This law simply tosses the woman a few drugs and claims that is all that is needed to be supportive. A truly helpful law would support female students in choosing life and continuing their education.