“Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures” is the 2012 theme being used by organizations and governments around the world. Here in South Carolina, we believe that for girls to achieve their dreams, they need to be educated about their health.

That’s why Tell Them, in support of International Women’s Day, is encouraging its members to sign the Bill or Rights and support every young adult’s right to uncensored reproductive health education and access to services. 

If every International Women’s Day event held in 2012 includes girls in some way, then thousands of minds will be inspired globally.

On this International Women’s Day, we now have one more reason to celebrate. Again, a woman has crashed through that “glass ceiling” and made things possible for women across the globe. This year’s theme, “Equal rights, equal opportunity: Progress for all,” has a new meaning this morning, as a woman has overcome history to receive the recognition she so rightfully deserved.

International Women’s Day is a global celebration of the artistic, economic, political, and social achievements of women. Occurring during Women’s History Month, today is a national holiday in some countries, where men and children give gifts to the women in their lives.

In this moment of celebration, we take pause to recognize those women across the globe and right here in our own communities, who are still being oppressed. In South Carolina, women’s healthcare and rights are being trampled on and destroyed by our lawmakers.

The women of South Carolina can change this. We can come together, and with a unified voice, illustrate that we deserve to be celebrated, that we should be respected, and compel policymakers to pass responsible reproductive health policies. Join the Virtual March, and together we can keep the moment of history changing in our favor.

“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!” ~ Sojourner Truth