Michigan Democratic lawmakers have sponsored a bill to remove the state’s ban on teaching abortion as a “method of family planning” from the sex education curriculum.
State Rep. Rachel Hood, D-Grand Rapids, introduced an overhaul of Michigan’s sex ed standards, crossing out the sentence: “Clinical abortion shall not be considered a method of family planning, nor shall abortion be taught as a method of reproductive health.”
Hood and 21 other Democratic co-sponsors want to add “information about the effectiveness and safety of all contraceptive methods approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration in preventing pregnancy” into the sex ed curriculum. That likely means she wants teachers to discuss with students the abortion pill, which was approved by the FDA in 2000.
Their bill, introduced Nov. 12, says teachers of sex education should…
