New Polish textbook provokes anger with passage on fertility

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A high school textbook produced under the auspices of Poland’s conservative government has provoked criticism for what some government critics see as an attempt to indoctrinate young people. Recent criticism of the book, titled “History and the Present,” has focused on a passage that describes what the author views as modern approaches to child bearing. The passage reads, “Increasingly sophisticated methods of separating sex from love and fertility lead to the treatment of sex as entertainment and fertility as human production, one could say breeding.” Former Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the leader of the centrist opposition party Civic Platform, denounced the passage last week for implying that children conceived via in vitro fertilization are unloved.