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Reproductive Health All Americans must be free to make choices concerning their own health in keeping with their personal beliefs.
Opponents of reproductive freedom often seek legislation based on their own religious doctrines. Creating laws that are grounded in religious belief, however, conflicts with the separation of church and state and compromises our religious liberty. We must be allowed to live our lives according to our own beliefs.
At the center of the reproductive health debate are important questions about individual conscience. Decisions about family planning and emergency contraceptives should be resolved privately, based on our personal beliefs. Individuals may look to their own faith or other ethical considerations as they make these choices, but the government must never mandate that all Americans must follow the tenets of one religious viewpoint. Religious liberty is a basic right guaranteed to all Americans. We must not deny women this basic freedom.
Offering a variety of choices around reproductive health offers each of us the opportunity to make the best decisions about our options.
In The News: "Survey: Majority of Americans Still Want to Keep Abortions Legal" The Christian Post - November 13, 2007 "Thompson outlines strategy to undo Roe vs. Wade" Chicago Tribune - November 13, 2007 "Planned Parenthood Applauds Congressional Expansion of Family Planning" All American Patriots - November 12, 2007 "Massachusetts Acting to Extend Abortion Buffer" The New York Times - November 8, 2007 "Nation's Leading Reproductive Health Care Advocate and Provider Calls for End to Abstinence-Only Federal Funding" All American Patriots - November 8, 2007 "Court: Druggists May Deny Emergency Pill " The Washington Post - November 8, 2007 "Telling the Stories Behind the Abortions " The New York Times - November 6, 2007 "Family planning appointment is anti-reproductive rights" Workers World - November 2, 2007 "Anti-Abortion Movement Borrows Tactics from the KKK" Alternet - October 10, 2007 "High Court won't hear birth control case " Yahoo! News - October 1, 2007 "Faith in secular government" The Roanoke Times - September 19, 2007 " 'Values Voters' Hold Debate" Associated Press - September 18, 2007 "NJ Court Scraps Trial on Abortion Data" The Washington Post - September 12, 2007 "Support bill to update abortion rights" Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - September 12, 2007 "The Right Is Wrong About Sex Education " Philadelphia Jewish Voice - September 7, 2007 "Thompson: Roe 'bad law and bad medicine'" CNN.com - August 23, 2007 "Groups Take Fight Against Lessons to Court" The Washington Post - August 3, 2007 "No-sex lesson rules in Florida " St. Petersburg Times - August 1, 2007 "Planned Parenthood expanding to handle added government funding for family planning" Waco Tribune-Herald - August 1, 2007 "A truce in the sex ed wars?" Christian Science Monitor - July 31, 2007 "Our view on sex education: Abstinence-only fails to stop early pregnancies, diseases" USA Today - July 30, 2007 "ACLU seeks more information on Oregon-based abstinence program" Associated Press - July 27, 2007 "Kissing is Acceptable While Dating According to ChristiaNet.com Poll" Christian NewsWire - July 25, 2007 "Teen Sex Rates Stop Falling, Data Show" The Washington Post - July 22, 2007 "Dems Attack Bush on Women's Health Issues" The New York Times - July 18, 2007 "Plan B Use Surges, And So Does Controversy" The Washington Post - July 13, 2007 "U.S. Surgeon General sees 4-year term as compromised" International Herald Tribune - July 11, 2007 "On Balance, Religious Conservatives Fared Well Under Roberts, Alito " The Pew Forum - June 28, 2007 "House Votes to Restore Overseas Contraceptive Aid " CNSnews.com - June 22, 2007 "Survey: Abortion Not Top-Tier Issue in White House Race" The Christian Post - June 22, 2007 "Pro-Lifers Protest Bill to Force Pharmacists to Distribute 'Plan B'" Christian Post - June 11, 2007 "Wisconsin Abortion Ban Cannot Be Enforced Despite U.S. Supreme Court Ruling, State AG Says" Medical News Today - June 6, 2007 "South Carolina: Vote on compromise ultrasound abortion bill delayed" WCNC - June 6, 2007 "Abortion foes are divided" Star-Telegram - June 6, 2007 "Appeals court rejects Mich. abortion law" Houston Chronicle - June 4, 2007 "Kansas Board of Ed. repeals conservative sex ed policies" CNN.com - May 9, 2007 "Gonzalez v. Carhart: The Supreme Court's Validation of the Federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban " Writ's FindLaw: Legal News and Commentary - May 7, 2007 "The Supreme Court and Abortion Rights" The New England Journal of Medicine - May 2, 2007 "Patrick seeks to forgo grant, end classes on sex abstinence" The Boston Globe - April 25, 2007 "Court Abortion Verdict Raises Religion Question " The Politico - April 24, 2007 "Studies put abstinence funds at risk" The Washington Times - April 24, 2007 "'Supreme Court is capable of reversing decades of constitutional protections for women' " United Church of Christ News - April 20, 2007 "Court Ruling Catapults Abortion Back Into ’08 Race" New York Times - April 20, 2007 "Court Backs Ban on Abortion Procedure" The Washington Post - April 18, 2007 "Study: Sex abstinence classes failed" Associated Press - April 16, 2007 "Abortion case heard could have national fallout" St. Louis Post-Dispatch - April 11, 2007 "Full Federal Appellate Court Will Revisit Abortion Issue in South Dakota" The New York Times - April 11, 2007 "Ohio May Reject Federal Abstinence Funds" Religion News Service - March 30, 2007 "McCain Wants Roe V. Wade Overturned" Associated Press - February 19, 2007 "Public gets first chance to testify on HPV mandate" Houston Chronicle - February 18, 2007 "Beyond Abstinence-Only" Center for American Progress - February 15, 2007 "Tenn. bill proposes death certificates for fetuses" AP - February 14, 2007 "Gov. Perry Establishes HPV Vaccination Program for Young Women" Office of the Governor, Texas - February 2, 2007 "The Abstinence Shtick, Minus Jesus - Assembly Attended by 1,000 Students Watched Warily by ACLU" The Washington Post - October 13, 2006 "Legislating Violations of the Constitution" The Washington Post - September 30, 2006 "The Morning After" The Baltimore Sun - August 28, 2006 "S. Dakota Becomes Abortion Focal Point: Voters to decide fate of state ban" The Washington Post - August 28, 2006 "New York Women See Two Sides of Prescription-Free Morning-After Pill" The New York Times - August 26, 2006 "F.D.A. Approves Broader Access to Next-Day Pill" The New York Times - August 25, 2006 "F.D.A. Gains Accord on Wider Sales of Next-Day Pill" The New York Times - August 9, 2006 "Interstate Abortion Bill Clears Senate: Minors Would Need Parents' Permission" The Washington Post - July 26, 2006 "High Court Will Revisit 'Partial-Birth' Abortion" The Omaha World-Herald - February 22, 2006 Partner Organizations
The organizations featured below are encouraging their members and supporters to sign the First Freedom First petition to safeguard separation of church and state and protect religious liberty. Click their logo to learn more.
Madison PartnersOrganizations working with First Freedom First on Reproductive Health
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