REVERE – For 25 years, pregnant women in the Hub have traveled to pregnancy resource centers for counseling and free medical services. Lately, a local organization has employed mobile technology to bring their aid closer to clients' homes.
Learn Your Options, which runs three centers in eastern Massachusetts, last year christened a mobile clinic – a medically licensed van that contains laboratory-grade pregnancy testing and ultrasound equipment. When it is operating, the van travels to locations in Dorchester, Roxbury and Lynn to provide services.
Dorm rooms, shower baskets, Frisbees flying through a sun-streaked courtyards — these are traditional iconic images of a college school year's kickoff. Today's college students, however, might also add "sensitivity seminars" and warnings about the prevalence of sexual assault as one of the rites of passage for the start of college.
There's a good reason for all the discussion about sexual assault on college campus: It happens too often. Americans often hear the statistic "one-in-four," suggesting that fully one-quarter of college women will be victims of rape, sexual assault or attempted assault while in college. Fortunately, an examination of the survey data behind this statistic reveals that it overstates the prevalence of the heinous crimes that come to mind when one hears the terms rape or sexual assault.
