EDMOND, Okla. – Parents of Edmond Santa Fe High School students are fuming over a “non graded exercise” about abortion and human genetic disorders given to students.

The assignment was an optional exercise for students distributed by the school’s biology teachers as a way to spark discussion about human genetic disorders.

The first question, according to KFOR.com:

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You’ve found out that the child you (or your wife) caries has the gene for dwarfism. A new therapy exists that may repair this gene before the child is born. What do you do?

  1. Allow the child to be born with the gene, and we will accept the child as is.
  2. Attempt the new therapy to repair the gene.
  3. Terminate pregnancy.

The option to abort the pregnancy is what riled many parents.

“Abortion is a subject many parents would rather discuss with their children,” according to one post on the Facebook page Oklahoma Parents and Educators for Public Education, according to the news site. “It is more than just an ethics question.”

“That’ not education but indoctrination,” someone else posted. “Don’t teach kids to be Democrats or Republicans.”

“This is not a subject I want my child discussing in class,” another parent wrote. “Ethics and beliefs are for home, not school.”

District spokeswoman Susan Parks-Schlepp told KFOR students were not required to fill out the quiz if they felt uncomfortable, and most didn’t. The idea behind the optional assignment was to encourage students to think critically about genetic mapping, she said.

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“There was no punishment for any of the choices that they circled,” she said.

Students told the news site that they’re concerned about discussing abortion in class because it’s such a divisive issue.

“Abortion just isn’t right in my mind. I don’t like the idea of it,” an unidentified Santa Fe High School student told KFOR. “People talk about quizzes and they talk about things in class. It would make me feel uncomfortable because I don’t know if I could get hurt by what I say, or not.”

At least one website, Care2.com, blames students’ reluctance to discuss abortion or other potentially controversial issues on conservative pro-life advocates.

“Why are students afraid of their peers finding out their beliefs when it comes to abortion, even in something as non-threatening as a classroom exercise on medical ethics and genetics?” the site questions.

“Because abortion and even basic sex education has been so ostracized from a regular high school curriculum that just the vague mention of it has students believing that something inappropriate is being talked about.”

Meanwhile, pro-life advocates like former abortion clinic manager Carol Everett are working to expose the school to abortion clinic pipeline that groups like Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers have built in to school sex ed programs.

“Our goal was three to five abortions per student for every student we could get,” Everett told EAGnews.