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Hmm. . . does anyone else find it absolutely amazing that the conservative powers that be are fighting the federal funding of comprehensive sex education and access to affordable contraception at the same time they’re flashing pictures of aborted fetuses to children. There seems to be some imbalance in the world.
The 7-by-20-foot truck with photos of first-term fetuses on three sides appeared near Dodson Middle School around 7:30 a.m. March 24, 2003, as students arrived. Several stopped to stare at the photos, which showed fetuses with small hands and feet and the word “choice” in quotation marks and big block letters, according to court documents.
Assistant Principal Art Roberts told the trial court that he saw several children who appeared to be angered by the images and that he had to discourage a group of boys from throwing rocks at the truck.
If high school students aren’t mature enough to have a frank discussion of the facts and biology of human sexuality, can we expect 10 year-olds to be able to process the images of aborted fetuses in their appropriate context? Just watching a video of a woman giving birth tramautized me at 12.
“There are some realities which can not be adequately communicated with words alone,” he said. “Students who are old enough to have an abortion are old enough to see an abortion.”
But they’re not old enough to be told how to prevent pregnancy, so that facing an abortion is a limited possibility. You can’t have it both ways.
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