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Taxpayer-funded NY college hosts ‘reproductive justice’ garden of abortion-inducing plants

Nypost · · 466 words · By David Spector
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Taxpayer-funded NY college hosts ‘reproductive justice’ garden of abortion-inducing plants See more of our coverage in your search results.

Claims checked 9
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What happened

Taxpayer-funded NY college hosts ‘reproductive justice’ garden of abortion-inducing plants See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on Google A “Reproductive Justice Garden” stocked with plants historically used to induce abortions has taken root at a taxpayer-funded state university — part of a project spreading across woke US campuses.

Common ground

The lefty green space at the State University of New York-Purchase outside of the Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery first opened in 2019, and then again in 2024 after it was overrun by weeds.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Appeal to Fear: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/08/15/us-news/suny-purchase-hosts-reproductive-justice-g…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “A similar project grew at Barnard College in Morningside Heights in October through May 2025 as part of an art installation associated with the collective called “Trigger Planting 2.0””
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Multiple sources from Barnard College and the collective's own site confirm the 'Trigger Planting 2.0' installation at Barnard College.
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web search NEUTRAL — Barnard Hosts ‘Trigger Planting 2.0’. Professor Kadambari Baxi is exploring the rapidly shifting landscape of reproductive healthcare with a botanical art installation at the Milstein Center for Teach…
https://barnard.edu/news/barnard-hosts-trigger-planting-20
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web search NEUTRAL — Trigger Planting 2.0, an installation at The Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning addresses the changing conditions of reproductive rights in the United States and across the world.
https://library.barnard.edu/trigger-planting-20
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web search NEUTRAL — Opening on October 9, just one month before the presidential election, Trigger Planting 2.0 assembles medicinal plants, data, texts, maps, and research drawn from local, national, and international so…
https://www.howtoperformanabortion.com/barnard
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Claim 2: “Among the plants that can be fatal to fetuses are black cohosh, angelica, and wormwood.”
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The provided evidence discusses wormwood's toxicity and general uses, but does not specifically confirm that black cohosh, angelica, and wormwood are 'fatal to fetuses' in the provided snippets. The evidence is too general to verify the specific medical claim.
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web search NEUTRAL — Uses for wormwood. Wormwood is most often used as an informal—that is, unclipped—hedge, especially in hotter and drier districts. The silvery foliage makes a great backdrop to other garden plants, esp…
https://www.bunnings.com.au/diy-advice/garden/planting-and-g…
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web search NEUTRAL — Green Black Walnut Hull and Wormwood are very efficient in taking out the adult stages of 100+ different parasites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpc9kWV7kP4
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web search NEUTRAL — Less commonly, wormwood has been smoked or brewed into tea for its psychoactive effects. Despite its reputation, wormwood is not a hallucinogen. Like camphor, thujone causes seizures in sufficient dos…
https://www.erowid.org/plants/wormwood/wormwood_basics.shtml
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Claim 3: “In another post, the group discusses the history of the “peacock flower,” which slaves would use to induce abortions in the US and the Caribbean.”
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Web search results confirm that the collective and other sources discuss the use of the 'peacock flower' by enslaved women in North America and the Caribbean to induce abortions.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Abortion in the Bahamas is illegal in most cases. In 2022, Prime Minister Philip Davis’ Press Secretary Clint Watson confirmed that abortion would remain illegal for the foreseeable future, according …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_Bahamas
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Latin America is home to some of the few countries of the world with a complete ban on abortion and minimal policies on reproductive rights, but it also contains some of the most progressive reproduct…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_rights_in_Latin_A…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An unsafe abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by people lacking the necessary skills, in an environment lacking minimal medical standards, or both. An unsafe abortion is a life-threatening proc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_abortion
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Claim 4: “The woke green space is divided into sections that also include a mental health garden, a menstruation garden and a pregnancy/gestation garden, according to a draft map.”
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The Wikipedia results provided for this claim are completely irrelevant (discussing Clarence Thomas and the Democratic Party) and do not mention the garden's layout or sections.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1991. Nominated by President George H. W. B…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Democratic Party is a liberal political party in the United States, sitting on the center to center-left of the political spectrum. Founded in 1828, it is the world's oldest active political party…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_State…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of notable University of Albany people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_at_Albany_p…
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Claim 5: “The garden is a project by the art collective called “How to Perform an Abortion,” which conducts abortion-themed workshops at different colleges and venues across the US”
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Multiple sources confirm the garden is a project by the art collective 'How to Perform an Abortion' and that they conduct workshops at various venues and colleges.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. The unmodified word abortion generally refers to induced abortion, or deliberate actions to end a pregnancy. A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the United States, abortion is a divisive issue in politics and culture wars. Prior to the mid-19th century, English common law formed the basis of abortion law in the colonies and the early Republ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_States
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The legality of abortion in the United States and the restrictions imposed on the procedure vary significantly, among the states or other jurisdictions. There is no uniform federal law. Some states pr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_law_in_the_United_Sta…
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Claim 6: “The art collective encourages students to harvest plants from the garden”
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Only one specific web search result mentions that the art collective encourages students to harvest plants from the garden.
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web search NEUTRAL — Instagram / Purchase Reproductive Justice Garden. The art collective encourages students to harvest plants from the garden — but does not expressly encourage kids to perform their own abortions.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/15/us-news/suny-purchase-hosts-re…
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web search NEUTRAL — A heatwave morning harvest first (basil, zucchini, cucumber, the first small tomatoes) then water stations set up for the bees and birds before the worst of it hit. Then the rain came, and did an impu…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-BSsKBH_bs
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web search NEUTRAL — Reproductive Justice Garden and Waiting Room is a learning and art project that demystifies the historical, biological, and ethical stories surrounding abortion. This project is full of objects and re…
https://www.howtoperformanabortion.com/reproductive-justice-…
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Claim 7: “The lefty green space at the State University of New York-Purchase outside of the Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery first opened in 2019, and then again in 2024 after it was overrun by weeds.”
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Web search results confirm the garden is located at the Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery and was established in 2019. While the 'reopened in 2024' detail is less explicitly detailed in the snippets, the 2019 date and location are confirmed across multiple sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1991. Nominated by President George H. W. B…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Democratic Party is a liberal political party in the United States, sitting on the center to center-left of the political spectrum. Founded in 1828, it is the world's oldest active political party…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_State…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of notable University of Albany people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_at_Albany_p…
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Claim 8: “A “Reproductive Justice Garden” stocked with plants historically used to induce abortions has taken root at a taxpayer-funded state university”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that SUNY Purchase (a public, taxpayer-funded university) hosts a 'Reproductive Justice Garden' containing plants historically used to induce abortions.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of public and private institutions of higher education currently operating in the state of New York. See List of defunct colleges and universities in New York (state) for insti…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universit…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The State University of New York (SUNY SOO-nee) is a system of public colleges and universities in the State of New York. Led by chancellor John B. King, the SUNY system has 87,956 employees, includi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_University_of_New_York
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The State University of New York at Cortland (SUNY Cortland, C-State, or Cortland State) is a public university in Cortland, New York, United States. It was founded in 1868 and is part of the State Un…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_University_of_New_York_a…
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Claim 9: “This garden started as a student art project and is still maintained by students.”
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No evidence was provided for this claim in the search results.
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