Teaching Abortion
A look at how schools can provide factual and balanced information for students to make up their own minds about safe sex, pregnancy and abortion.
Sex and Relationship Education is to become compulsory in schools, and abortion education can be a key part of both PSHE and RE. But schools and teachers often feel anxious about teaching the subject.
Here, one school shows how pupils helped design the SRE curriculum, a sexual health centre shows how young people are advised about abortion in their communities, and Charles Edward Brooke School, London, shows how it is tackling abortion education head on.
With over 20,000 teenage girls terminating their pregnancies annually in the UK, this programme takes a timely look at abortion education.
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- Published: 08 January 2009
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Connexions Direct Wide ranging information and advice for young people
Brook Advisory Centres Charitable organisation that provides free and confidential sexual health advice and services specifically designed for young people
Like it is Website for 11- to 15-year-olds providing information about all aspects of sex education and teenage life
British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) BPAs is the leading provider of abortion services in the UK, with a national network of consultation centres and clinics
Marie Stopes International The charity Marie Stopes International (MSI) is the UK's leading provider of sexual and reproductive healthcare services
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