Arizona law leads to ‘edit’ of biology textbook

[KamaAina]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/arizona-law-leads-edit-biology-textbook

Apparently, in 2012, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) signed into a law a measure that requires public schools to present child birth and adoption as preferred options to elective abortion.

What’s wrong with that? In Gilbert, the honors biology class uses a textbook with a page that told students, “[C]omplete abstinence, avoiding intercourse, is the only totally effective method of birth control.” The same page includes information – rather clinic information – about the morning-after bill and medically-induced abortion. The procedure, the text says, “requires a doctor’s prescription and several visits to a medical facility.”

The state Board of Education and its lawyer said the paragraph in question isn’t a problem – it doesn’t advocate or encourage abortion – but apparently that didn’t matter. Conservative activists and local Republican officials insisted the textbook is illegal under the law created by Brewer two years ago.

As a practical matter, they conceded that the textbook pre-dates the Arizona statute, and that the school district can’t just go out and buy new textbooks because of one paragraph the right finds objectionable, so in the interest of expediency, conservatives want to “excise” the offending page – which is to say, they want to literally tear out the page that mentions abortion from the book.

[True Blue Door]

1. I guess it's too hot in Arizona for the right to host its traditional book-burning festivities.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. Here in Ohio, I remember one year in which

several sections of a high school biology text were blacked out with markers by administration, and that was several decades back. I believe the 'offending' section talked about IUDs.

[Ampersand Unicode]

3. The state official said that they were "redacting," not "censoring"

Um.................... I believe technically it's the same thing?