Medically accurate information and access to reproductive healthcare promotes good family planning and prevents disease. We fund community programs to increase prevention education and access to clinical services.
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When young people know all the facts, they make better decisions. When you give them access, you empower then to act responsibly. These programs demonstrate how South Carolina can chart a better course for everyone, in just one generation.
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Advocacy
State policy can intrude in a family’s private healthcare decisions and limit access to reproductive healthcare. Often, policymakers hear a great deal from a vocal minority in South Carolina, an extreme group that does not represent the vast majority of reasonable mainstream views on basic healthcare such as birth control.
Many South Carolinians are unaware of issues before the legislature—and how they, as voters, can influence state policy on these issues. New Morning funds advocacy efforts to monitor policy under consideration, to provide facts to decision-makers, and to give citizens a way to make their views known.
Tell Them! leads grassroots advocacy through an online network. Membership in Tell Them! is free. When issues come up, Tell Them! members receive email alerts, letting them know how they can take action if they want to voice a concern. In recent months, Tell Them! members have contacted their representatives in opposition to proposed legislative mandates and in support of mandatory HIV-prevention education in public middle schools.
New Morning also supports The South Carolina Coalition for Healthy Families, which provides lobbying at the state level on issues related to family and reproductive healthcare.
“I know from working on these issues at the Statehouse: legislators are no less than bombarded with exaggerated or even false information from extreme groups, who use scare-tactics to push their own agendas. Our coalition represents the mainstream in South Carolina, which is a rational, majority voice and one backed by science and medicine, not ideology. It’s critical for legislators to get facts, and to see that there is a demand from reasonable South Carolinians for consistent medical accuracy and privacy in family planning.”
Brandi Parrish
South Carolina Coalition for Healthy Families