For some college students, returning to New Jersey after a summer away, the fall semester will spark a growing wave of protest.  After all, how would you feel if you suddenly couldn’t get affordable birth control or basic reproductive check-ups at your university’s health center?  At Princeton, where I’m a senior, the possibility isn’t on many people’s radar – we’re so used to free condoms and subsidized birth control that nobody made a peep when University Health Services tripled the co-pay for its contraceptive pills last spring (although, frankly, there should have been more of a reaction).

But it will soon be a reality for students on campuses just miles from ...