The ISU Student Health Center is looking into the possibility of providing the abortion drug, RU-486.

Here at Iowa State, we have the medical capacity for the drug, with appropriate pre-procedure and after-hours care.

The drug, which has come under a lot of attack since its recent legalization, is a revolutionary and safer way for one to go through the abortion process.

Whether or not you think abortion is moral, it is a legal practice, and if an adult makes the choice to have an abortion, new alternatives need to be available.

What is the point of legalizing a scientific breakthrough if it doesn’t become readily available to the public?

Everyone on campus, for the most part, is an adult. The choice to have an abortion is an adult decision, and all alternatives must be available.

RU-486, despite what critics say, will not increase the number of abortions done.

No one will be rushing to get abortions performed on them once the drug is made available. The procedure, with or without RU-486, is not without pain.

The drug acts as a safer and newer way to undergo the procedure.

No one that is pro-choice is in favor of killing a fetus. Someone who is pro-choice believes the government should not impose on the privacy rights of women.

Everyone can make up their own minds as adults, and no one should be told by anyone else to not do something perfectly legal.

Now that RU-486 is on the market, and Iowa State has the medical capacity to be able to offer it, there is no reason why it shouldn’t be made available.

editorialboard: Carrie Tett, Jocelyn Marcus, Katie Goldsmith, Andrea Hauser and Tim Paluch