Anti-abortion activists have suffered a setback on the Canadian Prairies.
The public school board in Edmonton, Alberta says it is ordering principals to stop using an anti-abortion group to teach sex education in high schools.
The decision came after an Edmonton teen and her mother complained that the use of the Chistian-based Pregnancy Care Centre to teach sex education infringed on their rights of non-Christians.
Kathy Dawson says she went to her daughter Emily’s class with her and was astounded by what she heard.
Ms. Dawson says the centre’s instructors said negative things about contraception and only positive things about abstinence, and told the kids that gonorrhea would kill them in under three days.
“We want to have parental support for what we’re doing a so moving forward, the district will be looking at other providers,” said Lorne Parker, the acting superintendent of the school board.
Ms. Dawson says she will not drop her human rights complaint until the school board changes its policy in writing.
She wants parents to be told about all guest speakers and have the option to opt out.
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