Catholic Schools That Teach Life Begins At Birth Aren't Just Anti-Christian, They're Anti-Science

biological process of fertilization, or what most Catholics understand as “conception."

Holy frick this person is insufferable.

Worse, in some Catholic schools, students are being introduced to the erroneous idea that organisms including human beings begin to exist at birth. For example, in accordance with a science standard that explores the life cycles of most organisms, Catholic schools in Virginia are teaching second graders that plants and animals have life cycles from “birth to death,” without any type of clarifying statement that the human life cycle — our life cycle — begins before birth,

This is the rightoid version of saying air conditioning is racist

What Catholic schools teach that life begins at birth? That's even a minority opinion among purely secular people.

Edit: this is what she has a problem with:

The pattern of change from birth to death is called the life cycle

Some animals, frogs and butterflies, go through distinct stages in their life Cycles while others do not

Completely innocuous. Catholic journos are still journos.

This article is bad because it's legitimately confusing when it's being sarcastic - I think beyond autism, and I forgive all the dramatards here who thought the federalist would post a pro-choice anti Catholic article by a woman who wrote a children's book about life beginning at the embryo.