{"id":196826,"date":"2019-02-19T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=196826"},"modified":"2019-02-21T00:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:23:00","slug":"mother-complains-doctor-describing-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mother-complains-doctor-describing-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent angry that teacher showed video of doctor describing abortion to House committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A mother in Johnson County, Tennessee, complained after a teacher showed her son\u2019s high school biology class footage of Congressional testimony from former abortionist, Dr. Anthony Levatino, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjhl.com\/local\/johnson-county-mother-upset-after-video-about-abortion-shown-in-high-school-class\/1774021939\">aired on C-SPAN<\/a>. The footage shows Dr. Levatino testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. In his testimony, Dr. Levatino, who committed more than 1,200 abortions before becoming pro-life, describes the most common second trimester abortion procedure.<\/p>\n<p>According to News Channel 11, Laurette Loy, the mother of a student in the AP Biology class that viewed the footage, objected. She claimed, &#8220;It is not appropriate for any public high school classroom. The doctor talked about removing arms and legs.\u201d She added, &#8220;It was very emotion provoking and it was not a black and white kind of factual thing.&#8221; The news outlet reported that Loy &#8220;claimed the video was politically biased.&#8221; Watch the video:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7W6QBog_LUY\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/live-action-abortion-procedures-impact\/\">100 million views: People respond to the viral \u2018Abortion Procedures\u2019 videos<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The director of schools for the county, Mischelle Simcox, told the news outlet that the teacher&#8217;s decision to show the video was in line with AP Biology standards.<\/p>\n<p>An accurate description of an abortion isn&#8217;t political, but it does include details like removing arms and legs &#8212; because preborn babies do, in fact, have arms and legs. This is not, as Loy went on to suggest, politically biased, but accurate. Though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qmvoObAlCOA&amp;t=5s\">Planned Parenthood would prefer to show a &#8220;dot&#8221; being removed from a woman&#8217;s uterus<\/a>, the truth is that a child, from very early in pregnancy, has recognizable body parts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VjhFNEV6shY\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To their credit, the school district has not disciplined the teacher over this groundless objection, and she continues to teach. Mischelle Simcox explained to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjhl.com\/local\/johnson-county-mother-upset-after-video-about-abortion-shown-in-high-school-class\/1774021939\">News Channel 11<\/a>, &#8220;She [the teacher] let the students know what the video was going to be about because it was just going to be a discussion between lawmakers and a doctor, and that if anyone felt uncomfortable, they had the right, of course, to leave the room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Levatino appears in Live Action&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/abortionprocedures.com\">Abortion Procedures<\/a> videos, which have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLRCroccSjXWR9HVr_ooA3ErEAR0SifdwY\">viewed on YouTube<\/a> tens of millions of times. Last year, a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/teacher-investigation-abortion-videos\/\">California teacher was placed under investigation<\/a> after showing one of the medically-animated abortion procedure videos.<\/p>\n<p>In the event of an unplanned pregnancy, teens and adults should have access to factual information about abortion so that they can make informed decisions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mother in Johnson County, Tennessee, complained after a teacher showed her son\u2019s high school biology class footage of Congressional testimony from former abortionist, Dr. Anthony Levatino, which\u00a0aired on C-SPAN. The footage shows Dr. Levatino testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. In his testimony, Dr. Levatino, who committed more than 1,200 abortions before becoming pro-life, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":180366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Parent angry that teacher showed video of doctor describing abortion to House committee<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The AP Biology teacher&#039;s content was acceptable for the course, said a school official. 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