We'd love to be able to work with other pro-life organizations who share our conviction that every person has a right to access the family planning method that is best for their life and health, and who see family planning as one important tool for ending abortion. Are you familiar with such a group? Please contact us!
ANNOUNCING: Family Planning Freedom Is Prolife!
What is family planning freedom? In short, it is the freedom to choose whether and when to attempt to conceive a child or to attempt to prevent conception, and to choose the prevention method that is best for one's own life circumstances and health.
Even though most self-identifed pro-lifers favor family planning freedom, we haven't succeeded in making our voiced heard in the public sphere. Too often, pro-life advocates link opposition to abortion with opposition to family planning, and pro-choice advocates link support for family planning with support for abortion.
All Our Lives rejects this opposition. We have developed a presentation outlining ten ways in which family planning freedom is prolife:
- It prevents millions of maternal and child deaths every year.
- It measurably reduces abortion rates.
- It is a critical solution to the overlapping injustices of violence against women and abortion.
- Contraceptives truly prevent rather than take lives.
- Contraception can be and is widely practiced without a “contraceptive mentality.”
- Some contraceptives help prevent HIV/AIDS.
- Most abortion opponents favor contraception.
- Family planning freedom is a recognized universal human right, and one that encompasses all prevention methods.
- Family planning freedom includes the freedom to bear children, and precludes forced sterilization and abortion.
- Contraception secures the sexual/reproductive and life rights of people with disabilities.
We hope that you will be able to use this resource in discussions with pro-lifers and pro-choicers alike.