South Carolina Coalition for Healthy Families

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.