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Rick Sanchez taked Michele Bachmann to task for her abortion field trips nonsense.

SANCHEZ: One of the things that we like to do in this segment is shine a light on lawmakers who gaffe or don't exactly tell the truth all the time. We begin "Fotos" today with Michele Bachmann.

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BACHMANN: The bill orders these clinics protect patient privacy in student records. What does that mean? It means that parents will never know what kind of counsel and treatment that their children are receiving.

And, as a matter of fact, the bill goes on to say what's going to go on. Comprehensive primary health services, physicals, treatment of minor, acute, chronic medical conditions, referrals to follow up for specialty care -- is that abortion? Does that mean that someone's 13-year-old daughter could walk into a sex clinic, have a pregnancy test done, be taken away to the local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, have their abortion, be back and go on home on the school bus that night? Mom and dad are never the wiser.

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SANCHEZ: If could, if could -- Bachmann is a Republican, by the way. And to be clear, we looked into this. Nothing that she is alleging in that sound bite you just heard is actually true, nothing. We checked.

School-based health clinics, or as Bachmann terms them, "sex clinics," have been around for some 30 years in the United States. And as far as we've been able to discover, not one of them has ever referred a student to an abortion provider without the knowledge of a parent, never happened. The actual bill that Bachmann is citing stipulates that school-based health clinics comply with all federal, state and local laws governing parental notification and parental consent.

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A school district near San Diego has now officially apologized for disallowing their students from watchign President Obama's speech last week. They had done so in a late night, "emergency" Labor Day vote overriding the District Superintendent who on the previous Friday had sent out notices that teachers would show the speech and that parents could opt out if they didn't want their kids to watch.

Apparently this wasn't good enough for the La Mesa-Spring Valley School Board trustees, who on a 3-2 vote overturned that, and initially wanted to bar the speech completely but settled for showing a recording at a later date. Rick Winet, a trustee, wrote "I would not and will not ever support this sort of selfish, socialistic message," calling it "a direct assault on The Constitution of The United States of America."

Naturally such blatant wingnuttery didn't go down well with the citizenry, even in a Republican district in California, and a mini revolt ensued with the School Board flooded with angry e-mails and phone calls.

If you wish to contact the Board by mail, send to:

Board of Education
La Mesa-Spring Valley School District
4750 Date Ave.
La Mesa, CA 91942
(619) 668-5700
Penny.Halgren@lmsvsd.k12.ca.us