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alp227

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Fri Mar 23, 2012, 06:53 PM Mar 2012

Revealed: what children are being told about abortion (in UK schools)

Anti-abortion campaigners in Britain are making controversial claims that abortions are linked to an increased risk of breast cancer, in a presentation to children in school which has been obtained by the Guardian.

Pupils were told that abortion can cause infertility and result in the death of the mother, and were shown a video by a Christian campaigner from the US who calls for abortion to be made "unthinkable".

Conceiving a child after rape is the "ultimate unplanned pregnancy", but to have an abortion at this stage can be a "second trauma," children at a secondary school in Cambridgeshire were told.

"For some people who've been raped and had the baby, even if they don't keep it, something positive comes out of that whole rape experience," pupils aged 14 and 15 were told.

full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/23/abortion-what-children-schools

That's how the fundamentalist anti-sex movement works. They know they have no scientific grounding for their ideology.

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