Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Pro-Life campaigners shock kids into moral blackmail
According to the Guardian on Tuesday Pro-life charities are doing a UK tour of schools to encourage the belief that abortion is wrong. One girl, Rawnie Chapman-Kitchin describes how when the charity, Spuc (The Society of Protection for the Unborn Child), gave a talk at her school, they compared abortion to Nazism. Children in her class claimed after the presentation they had been converted to a pro-life way of thinking, despite some of the presentation being inaccurate about the process of abortion. Well who wouldn't be convinced when the alternative is being branded a Nazi? Pro-life charities and organisation have much better funding and support to pull off such a tour of moral enlightenment than Pro-Choice campaign groups such as EFC (Education For Choice). It would seem then that British children are not getting both sides of the argument. Schools should take responsibility for providing a balanced platform for which a child can then make an informed decision based on facts. It's not about churning out children to agree with your views. Education, especially on an issue as important like this, should be about letting children explore the debates for themselves, whether you agree with them or not.
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Sorry to correct you, but I am Rawnie, and it wasn't a talk from Spuc; it was talk from a teacher (who is now at another school and left convinced that he would continue his talks in the same way).
ReplyDeleteOther than that, I totally agree with everything you've mentioned.