Anti-abortion groups invited to speak in schools were accused of peddling “junk science” in the classroom

Pupils in hundreds of schools are being told that abortions are like the crimes of the Nazis by speakers said to be “peddling junk science”, The Times can reveal.

Schoolgirls are taught by campaigners from anti-abortion groups that the procedure will render them infertile, depressed and suicidal.

Experts have launched a “fact-based” guide to abortion, backed by public health chiefs, which they have called on schools to adopt. The guide, by the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH), the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and education groups, was created in response to concerns about children being exposed to speakers who push anti-choice rhetoric and spread incorrect information about the risks.

One lesson plan by the anti-abortion Christian charity Lovewise, seen by The Times