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EDMONTON — The Edmonton Public School Board says it will instruct principals to stop using an anti-abortion group to teach sex education in high schools.

Acting superintendent Lorne Parker says parents contacted the board to raise concerns after an Edmonton teen and her mother launched a complaint to the Alberta Human Rights Commission.

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The complaint says the school district’s use of the Christian-based Pregnancy Care Centre to teach part of a core course infringed on their rights as non-Christians.

Kathy Dawson says she went to her daughter Emily’s class with her and couldn’t believe what she heard.

She says the centre’s instructors said negative things about contraception and only positive things about abstinence, and told the kids that gonorrhea would kill them in under three days.

Norah Kennedy of the Pregnancy Care Centre says the organization is “shocked and upset.”

Kennedy says her group was brought in to teach free of charge and has always been open about its “abstinence-based” teaching.