Reproductive Rights

For Immediate Release: March 19, 2010

Despite assurances from congressional leadership and other leaders on reproductive health issues on Capitol Hill, the health care reform bill to be voted on Sunday will contain funding for abstinence-only sex education. The provision will force taxpayers to spend $50 million a year for states to spend on programs based, not on medical science, but on religious ideology. The Secular Coalition for America, the national advocacy organization representing secular Americans, expressed its deep disapproval over this reversal.  Read more »

September 22nd- The Secular Coalition for America is actively lobbying in opposition to two amendments proposed to the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform bill which will be voted on this week.  Read more »

August 5th- The Secular Coalition for America, along with thirty-five other international and domestic advocacy groups, has sent letters to the Senate asking Senators to support an amendment included in the FY 2010 State Department, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations bill to permanently protect international family planning providers from the egregious Global Gag Rule.  Read more »

In 2005, the Arizona Daily Star reported that a 20-year-old woman living in Tucson Arizona was raped. The woman spent three frantic days calling dozens of Tucson pharmacies trying to fill a prescription for emergency contraception. She finally found a pharmacy carrying the prescription, but she was told the pharmacist on duty would not dispense it due to religious and moral objections. By the time a willing pharmacist was found, the optimal time frame for taking the medication had passed.  Read more »