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Catherine Alaimo/The Hoya | H*yas for Choice and SAPE sold condom-grams and consent-grams in honor of Valentines Day.

Be Mine… if You Want to: Consent, Condoms and Valentine’s Day

By Lauren Doherty, Senior News Editor February 15, 2024

H*yas for Choice (HFC), a pro-abortion student group, and Sexual Assault Peer Educators (SAPE), a student group that advocates for sexual assault survivors, held Valentine’s Day inspired fundraisers...

Annual Anti-Abortion Conference Sparks Campus Discourse

Annual Anti-Abortion Conference Sparks Campus Discourse

By Maren Fagan January 24, 2024

The 25th annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life (OCC) united prominent Catholic clergy, advocacy experts and students to discuss the state of anti-abortion politics and the sanctity of human life...

Self-Managed Abortions are Safe Alternative, HFC Event Says

Self-Managed Abortions are Safe Alternative, HFC Event Says

By Laetitia Haddad November 18, 2022

Students discussed the safety of abortion pills to terminate pregnancies when traditional abortions are inaccessible or criminalized at a H*yas For Choice (HFC) event Nov. 16.  The event, titled...

“H*YA SEXA”: HFC Commemorates 30 Years of Activism

“H*YA SEXA”: HFC Commemorates 30 Years of Activism

By Giulia Testa April 28, 2022

H*yas for Choice (HFC) celebrated 30 years of advocacy work fighting for reproductive justice and sex positivity on campus with a week of events and fundraising efforts. The organization, a pro-abortion...

VIEWPOINT: Promote Outlets for Safe Sex Resources

VIEWPOINT: Promote Outlets for Safe Sex Resources

By Reona Pereira January 20, 2022

It may be no surprise that Georgetown’s Catholic-Jesuit identity prevents the university from distributing condoms to students. However, it is surprising that one of the only places to get free condoms...

Students Protest for 24 Hours in Support of Abortion Rights

Students Protest for 24 Hours in Support of Abortion Rights

By Nick Cohen October 28, 2021

Student activists gathered outside the Supreme Court for 24 hours protesting the Texas Heartbeat Act.   The 496 Abortion Rally, named for the average number of miles someone living in Texas...

VIEWPOINT: Recommit to Free Speech Policy

VIEWPOINT: Recommit to Free Speech Policy

By Talia Parker February 14, 2020

On Jan. 22, 2020, Georgetown University prohibited an event hosted by H*yas for Choice from being held on campus. This action — an unequivocal violation of the Speech and Expression Policy — sets...

H*yas For Choice, a student group that advocates for reproductive rights, announced that it will begin providing Plan-B to students.

H*yas for Choice Will Provide Free Plan B for Students

By Will Cassou September 20, 2018

Pro-abortion rights student group H*yas for Choice began offering free emergency contraception to students Monday, the first time such contraceptives will be widely available on Georgetown University...

GULC Professors Urge Reproductive Care to Combat Zika

By Lisa Burgoa February 19, 2016

In the midst of the spread of the Zika virus, which might cause birth defects, an article published Feb. 1 by Georgetown’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law encouraged the World...

Our Trojan Horse

By The Editorial Board November 10, 2015

It is hardly a surprise that the recent release of the 10th Annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, a set of rankings evaluating universities on accessibility of sexual health resources and information...

The Closing Word

By The Editorial Board April 24, 2015

After an eventful year for campus life, student activism proved to be a deciding force in how diversity, freedom of expression and student-administration communication shaped the Georgetown community....

Fordham Students Protest Condom Policy

By Tom Garzillo November 11, 2014

Fordham University students demanded reform of university policies regarding contraceptives, free speech and sexual health in a petition signed by over 1,100 students and submitted to university president...

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