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<p>No, it’s not the same. Students spend most of their time on campus, and when they need health services it’s typically very easy for them to find and get themselves to the campus health center, which also has hours and easy walk-in appointment schedules tailored to students’ needs. There’s a reason colleges and universities don’t just leave it to students to fend for themselves in the general marketplace for a broad array of health services. Of course students are free to go off-campus for health services if they prefer; but colleges know more students will avail themselves of health services that are provided right on campus, because of the convenience factor, because the information and search costs are lower, and sometimes because the cost is lower. I frankly don’t want my daughters to be at a school where contraception and reproductive health services are segregated from other health services, pushed off-campus, and thereby made more inconvenient and possibly more expensive. A question of personal preference, perhaps, but to my mind not a trivial one.</p>