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These are a couple of strange statements. What difference does it make if the college itself doesn’t offer it? She can always get her BC elsewhere including by mail. She can see whatever doc she’s currently seeing when she comes home on visits - it’s not as if she must see a doc every few weeks for this. She can also see any of a number of docs at locations likely within a couple of miles from her school. Frankly, from what I’ve heard about some campus health clinics, she’s probably better off using a different resource for this anyway. The campus health center may not be what you’re envisioning. </p>
<p>I don’t understand the statement of ‘forcing her to see private doctors’. If she’ll be over 18 and she wants the BC then shouldn’t she be old enough and hopefully mature enough to see a doc on her own without having to be ‘forced’ by the parent? Maybe you didn’t mean it this way but that’s the way it read. </p>
<p>btw - If she’s going to end up seeing health resources outside of the campus you might want to see about waiving the health insurance fee colleges like to impose. If she’s on your insurance anyway you can save some money this way and in some cases have better resources.</p>
<p>Or did you mean you’re uncomfortable spending your money to support an institution with the Catholic views on the topic as opposed to the practicalities for your D? In that case I can understand your viewpoint and think you have every right to either not support it or to spend the money for your D to attend college and accept the fact that you’re likely not to agree 100% with everything every institution does. I don’t like the fact that my hard earned money went to support liberal and communist (really) professors but in the end that’s what I did for the degrees to be attained. It’s all a compromise.</p>
<p>So from a practical perspective I think it’s a non-issue and from a philosophical perspective you just need to decide how important it is to you and what the alternatives are. No matter what you do you’ll likely have to compromise somewhere along the line. Just picture your tuition money going to pay for the school and profs, etc. and not heading back into the pot for the ‘institution’ and you should be good.</p>