{"id":2854,"date":"2012-01-11T13:02:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T18:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2012-01-11T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T19:27:16","slug":"tell-them-gears-up-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/11\/tell-them-gears-up-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Them gears up for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the South Carolina Legislature resumes its legislative session, we at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tellthemsc.org\"><em>Tell Them<\/em><\/a>, a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\">SC Progressive Network<\/a>, are excited to\u00a0begin a new year.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tellthemsc.org\/\"><em>Tell Them<\/em><\/a><\/em> reached a significant milestone in 2011 when the  network grew to more than 10,000 members. Our focus on prevention has  resonated with mainstream South Carolinians committed to creating a  stronger, healthier state.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few months, we have made numerous updates to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tellthemsc.org\/\"><em>Tell Them <\/em>website<\/a> in order to better facilitate direct communication between our members and our elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>It now has a variety of new features, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tellthemsc.org\/site\/R?i=6nk4PyeLl588_leDH2Sn0A\">Young People&#8217;s Bill of Rights<\/a><\/strong>: <em>Tell Them <\/em>believes  that every young adult in South Carolina deserves the right to  uncensored reproductive health education and access to services. We have  developed 9 key rights that we strive to protect.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tellthemsc.org\/site\/R?i=frKFy6PRch3mSwlcU-8oGg\">Get Local<\/a><\/strong>:  Visit your regions\u2019 page to learn more about the issues currently  impacting your community and the actions you can take to have your voice  heard.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tellthemsc.org\/site\/R?i=tb75_Rg03_OB_cWczIMruQ\">Learn the Facts<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0  Use this new section get the facts about the economics of teen  pregnancy, access to reproductive healthcare, comprehensive sex  education, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will be using this new website, expanded field support, outdoor  and print advertising and social media to educate the public, and  ultimately lawmakers, about serious threats to basic individual rights.<\/p>\n<p>One of these very real threats in South Carolina is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tellthemsc.org\/site\/R?i=j_D0dqDSkqdvWUcguIIkHQ\">H. 3408 \u2013 The &#8220;Refusal of Care&#8221; Act<\/a>,  also known as the &#8220;Freedom of Conscience&#8221; Act.\u00a0This legislation would  give health care professionals the legal right to put their moral and  religious beliefs before the health and well-being of their patients.  You can also<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tellthemsc.org\/site\/R?i=Y42yW4mNyUl3CtKkRLFkuw\"> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/3408_TT_Fact_Sheet_-_Real_Life_Examples.pdf\">download some examples of how this legislation will affect patients in South Carolina<\/a>. Our top priority this session is defeating the passage of this bill, and we need your help to be successful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secure3.convio.net\/ttsc\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=219\">Click here to take action now on H. 3408<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to be a busy year for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tellthemsc.org\">Tell Them<\/a> <\/em>and one we hope you will want to share with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the South Carolina Legislature resumes its legislative session, we at\u00a0Tell Them, a member of the SC Progressive Network, are excited to\u00a0begin a new year. Tell Them reached a significant milestone in 2011 when the network grew to more than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/11\/tell-them-gears-up-for-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[159,87,71],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents","category-sc-newscommentary","tag-reproductive-rights","tag-sc-politics","tag-tell-them"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2856,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions\/2856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}