Michigan Democrats Want to Teach Minors About Abortion as ‘Family Planning’ Option

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...