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Privacy is critical, especially in matters of personal and reproductive health and family planning. Without privacy, a woman might not seek counseling or medical care. Likewise, without privacy, a woman might not feel confident to gather and evaluate information in a way that will help her make the best decisions for her health, her circumstances, her family and her future. With privacy, on the other hand, a woman can gather and evaluate information and make informed decisions appropriate for her circumstances.
The American Medical Association states (H-140-989 ) that "conflicts between a patient's right to privacy and a third party's need to know should be resolved in favor of patient privacy, except where that would result in serious health hazard or harm to the patient or others"1
The South Carolina Coalition for Healthy Families believes that regardless of the circumstances, all women deserve and need privacy when seeking reproductive health and family planning information and service. We work to protect privacy—to ensure that all reproductive health care and family planning services are accessible, confidential and provided in a sensitive manner. To this end, we support a Patient Bill of Rights and object to restrictions which invade privacy such as bias counseling and mandatory delay, religious restrictionsand informed consent.
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1Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, American Medical Association, 2009