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Arizona school district requires students to paste anti-abortion sticker in science textbook
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/22/1414551/-Arizona-school-district-requires-students-to-paste-anti-abortion-sticker-in-science-textbookLast year the dunderheads at Gilbert Public Schools (GPS), a suburb of Phoenix, thought they'd just tear the offending pages out of the biology textbook—pages that discuss human reproduction and the choices couples make when the woman becomes pregnant. One choice, still legal in America, is abortion, but the religious boobs on the GPS Governing Board didn't want that option mentioned as an acceptable alternative, so they were gonna rip out the pages that even referred to the procedure.
When news broke that GPS was tearing pages out of books, that didn't sit well with some parents. What's next, a book burning? So the school board backed away from that cockamamie idea and decided instead to edit the disagreeable pages, but then, oops, they ran into copyright issues. So now they've decided on something a bit less crazy—hence this sticker, which GPS required all students to paste on the cover of their science textbook:
