The incubators have to be carefully taught

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So this was on Phoenix ABC15's website this morning.

TEMPE, AZ – A sexual education presentation is causing lots of controversy in Tempe and has even sparked threats of a lawsuit.

Planned Parenthood will be making their presentation Tuesday in front of officials from  the Tempe Union High School District's Sexual Education Curriculum Committee.

It's not clear yet exactly what will be said during the presentation, but a group calling themselves the Alliance Defending Freedom wrote a letter to Tempe officials saying Planned Parenthood's presentation could be illegal under Arizona law.

 
That law was SB1009, which passed in 2012 and requires that public schools "promote childbirth and adoption over abortion". Here's the text:
 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Title 15, chapter 1, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 15-108, to read:

15-108.  Preference for childbirth and adoption; allowable presentations

A.  In view of the state's strong interest in promoting childbirth and adoption over elective abortion, no school district or charter school in this state may endorse or provide financial or instructional program support to any program that does not present childbirth and adoption as preferred options to elective abortion.

B.  In view of the state's strong interest in promoting childbirth and adoption over elective abortion, no school district or charter school in this state may allow any presentation during instructional time or furnish any materials to pupils as part of any instruction that does not give preference, encouragement and support to childbirth and adoption as preferred options to elective abortion.

 
Why does the state have a "strong interest" in pregnant teens not only giving birth, but relinquishing the infants for adoption? The right wing groups behind this law are also proponents of abstinence-only sex ed, in which students are taught that birth control doesn't work and that premarital sex irreparably damages you, particularly if you are a girl.
 
This is setting up a return to what was called The Baby Scoop Era,
 
What was the “Baby Scoop Era”?

The Baby Scoop Era was a period in United States history starting after the end of World War II and ending in approximately 1972, characterized by an increased rate of premarital pregnancies over the preceding period, along with a higher rate of newborn adoption.  From approximately 1940 to 1970, it is estimated that up to 4 million mothers in the United States surrendered newborn babies to adoption; 2 million during the 1960s alone. Annual numbers for non-relative adoptions increased from an estimated 33,800 in 1951 to a peak of 89,200 in 1970, then quickly declined to an estimated 47,700 in 1975 (This does not include the number of infants adopted and raised by relatives.  In contrast, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates that only 14,000 infants were “voluntarily” surrendered in 2003.

This period of history has been documented in scholarly books such as Wake Up Little Susie and Beggars and Choosers, both by historian Rickie Sollinger, and social histories such as The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler, a professor of photography at the Rhode Island School of Design who exhibited an art installation by the same title. It is also the theme of the documentary Gone To A Good Home by Film Australia.

Beginning in the 1940s and 1950s, illegitimacy began to be defined in terms of psychological deficits on the part of the mother (Solinger, 2000, p. 88). At the same time, a liberalization of sexual mores combined with restrictions on access to birth control led to an increase in premarital pregnancies.  The dominant psychological and social work view was that the large majority of unmarried mothers were better off being separated by adoption from their newborn babies (O’Shaughnassy, 1994, p. 115) According to Mandell (2007), “In most cases, adoption was presented to the mothers as the only option and little or no effort was made to help the mothers keep and raise the children.”

 
It's rather ironic that a group calling itself the Alliance Defending Freedom would be engaged in such a blatant attempt to conscript underage girls into serving as incubators for affluent adoptive couples. I guess some "freedoms" are more important than others.