Don’t use Form Two ‘abortion’ workbook, teachers told
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KUCHING: Schools and teachers have been advised not to buy and use an English workbook for Form Two students following the discovery of a controversial topic for sample writing which seemingly advocated abortion.
Making this call, state Welfare, Women and Family Development Minister Datuk Fatimah Abdullah said the passage contradicted the basic values Malaysians believed in — life.
She said the sample writing was also against the government’s efforts in promoting respect between boys and girls.
“It is wrong because the passage seems to be saying that abortion is acceptable. It is not. Abortion is about taking another individual’s life and this is equivalent to murder. In any religion, abortion is wrong.
“The state government can’t ban the book because it is a free market but schools and teachers have the authority not to buy and use the book.
“If they have used the book and particular passage to teach, they should explain to their students that abortion is wrong,” said Fatimah yesterday.
In the book’s passage, it said: “Her dad took her to the clinic the next day to have her abortion done” and “The abortion went like clockwork and without any difficulties and Mary came out of the clinic as healthy as before.”
A concerned reader highlighted the passage to a local newspaper last Friday, saying the first sentence seemed to treat the tragedy of teenage pregnancy callously, sending a message to youth that the consequences of promiscuity could be easily dealt with.
It was reported that the passage suggested that the family should seek the easy way out of this predicament by bringing the girl for abortion.
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