South Carolina Coalition for Healthy Families

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Mission Statement

We believe in the right of every South Carolinian:

  • to equal access to affordable, high quality healthcare (Access)
  • to medically accurate, age-appropriate health information (Education)
  • to privacy in matters of personal health (Privacy)
  • to make informed, responsible life decisions (Empowerment)

In order to achieve a healthy future for individual South Carolina citizens and, thus, the economic future of the state, we propose the following:

Access:

  • Providing uninsured and underinsured citizens with family planning and reproductive health services. 
  • Increasing access to family planning services, especially in rural communities. 
  • Guaranteeing the availability of comprehensive emergency care for sexual assault victims.

Education:

  • Providing reliable, age-appropriate, comprehensive reproductive health education in schools and communities.
  • Ensuring that patients receive medically accurate, factual reproductive health information in all healthcare settings.

Privacy:

  • Protecting individual access to family planning and reproductive health services. 
  • Maintaining a private and confidential patient-provider relationship.

Empowerment:

  • Empowering South Carolinians to make informed family planning and reproductive health decisions.
  • Increasing high school graduation rates through pregnancy prevention.