{"id":291854,"date":"2023-05-31T16:50:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T21:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=291854"},"modified":"2023-05-30T16:48:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T21:48:32","slug":"teacher-role-promote-abortion-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/teacher-role-promote-abortion-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a teacher’s ‘most critical role’ to promote abortion to students? Some say yes."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pro-abortion educational groups are pushing for teachers to advocate for abortion in their classrooms \u2014 and some schools are getting on board.<\/p>\n

An eye-opening article in a recent issue of the education magazine Rethinking Schools<\/a> claimed that educators have a duty to teach children about the alleged benefits of abortion in response to the fall of Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Teaching children that abortion is a ‘right’<\/h3>\n

As reported by National Review<\/a>, the magazine stated that the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe<\/em> in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em> decision calls for an “all-hands-on-deck response to ensure abortion for those who want and need it.” It continued that the “most critical role” for a teacher “is to combat the silence, shame, and misinformation around abortion.” Teachers should \u2014 said the magazine \u2014 discuss abortion as a right, highlight positive abortion stories, and share literature surrounding “sex, sexual violence, pregnancy, forced pregnancy, sterilization, abortion, and miscarriage.” The magazine’s editors write, “if we are to fight the criminalization of abortion, we also must fight its stigmatization. And that means teaching about it.”<\/p>\n

They add, “Abortion is often framed too narrowly \u2014 legalistically (a right, a law) or medically (a procedure). Instead, we should heed Black feminists who understand abortion to be part of a larger movement for reproductive justice.”<\/p>\n

In addition, the advocacy arm of the National Education Association (NEA) protested<\/a> the overturning of Roe v. Wade<\/em>, claiming that the “right to autonomy” is “not only special to us, but to our students’ futures.” In the NEA’s article, Abriana White, a senior at Michigan\u2019s Wayne State University, in Detroit, and vice president of Aspiring Educators of Michigan, said the state of democracy today is “unfair.” Change, she said, is “going to start in the classroom.”<\/p>\n

New sex-ed legislation<\/h3>\n

As reported by National Review<\/a>, that change has already begun. In California, legislators introduced<\/a> a bill package on “reproductive justice and abortion rights.” One of the bills \u2014 AB 598 \u2014 will require school districts to participate in the California Healthy Kids Survey, which gives legislators information to ensure they update the sex-ed they give children. It includes a module on sexual and reproductive health care.<\/p>\n

Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks said AB 598 will update<\/a> existing sex-ed requirements in the state to ensure that middle and high school children receive guidance on birth control and abortions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year I am doing a bill to ensure that our young people have not just education around reproductive care, but they know how to access such care,\u201d\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0Wicks. \u201cMy bill expands our sexual reproductive education requirements to ensure our young people have knowledge, and know where to, and how to receive abortion care along with contraception care and all the other care that our young people deserve to know about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

But how much do people really know about what abortion does to a human being?<\/p>\n