This fall, Boston University will offer a course titled Reproductive Justice and Social Work, an academic program that promotes abortion advocacy as a core part of social work.
Students will be taught to view abortion as a social justice issue, drawing from ideologies like “radical reproductive justice” and “racial capitalism,” while learning to frame pro-life protections as systems of oppression.
Rather than equipping students to serve women with compassion and impartial care, the course appears designed to produce abortion-rights activists.
In an article posted by The College Fix, MCFL President Myrna Flynn criticized the course’s one-sided approach, saying, “This course fails both social workers and women.” She noted that social workers have an “enormous responsibility” to understand the complex emotions women in crisis pregnancies experience and to provide “authentic, impartial service.”
Flynn added, “The only attacks on bodily autonomy happening now are those on unborn children.” She also challenged the course’s claims about oppression as “irony” and “projection.”
Women in need deserve better than abortion advocacy disguised as education.