Five-year-olds taught 'abortion is a superpower' in new children's book

It is being promoted by pro-abortion group Shout Your Abortion (SYA) - which hails the tome as a way to "empower parents and kids".

Elsewhere, children between five and eight years old are taught "about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions".

"Abortion is a tool that allows human beings to shape our destinies, and which has shaped the entire world around us," a description continues.

Excerpts from the book show bright colours and vibrant illustrations with text that reads: "Human beings are different from plants and non-human animals, because we have the ability to IMAGINE our lives many seasons from now... and make CHOICES."

With abortion a lightning-rod topic in the US, conservative lawyer and Donald Trump ally Jenna Ellis has drawn attention to the book, branding it "downright evil".

She said: "Why even introduce such a violent, adult topic to kids who still sleep with stuffed animals and ask for night lights? Because reshaping morality always starts with shaping the minds of the youngest."

Ms Ellis added: "SYA claims abortion is just one of three 'normal' pregnancy outcomes, like birth and miscarriage. But a miscarriage is a tragedy no mother chooses; abortion is the intentional ending of a child's life."

Just days ago, the US State Department made an extraordinary transatlantic intervention when it classed NHS abortions in the UK as human rights violations.

An official from the department also criticised human rights organisations for being "conspicuously silent" about the arrests of anti-abortion demonstrators near British clinics.

Washington is still weighing up whether it can grant asylum to British free speech advocates prosecuted for speaking out or participating in silent protests at abortion facilities.

On November 1, police arrested an anti-abortion campaigner at a peaceful protest in Cambridge.

While in late September, a 75-year-old grandmother was arrested, led into the back of a police van and charged after holding a sign outside a hospital in Glasgow.

Rose Docherty was later released on bail under a law which imposes so-called "buffer zones" outside Scottish abortion clinics.

Buffer zone laws had prompted US Vice President JD Vance to warn that free speech was "in retreat" in Europe earlier this year.

He pointed to an incident in Bournemouth where physiotherapist Adam Smith-Connor was convicted of breaching a safe zone after praying outside an abortion centre.

Mr Vance said: "I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one-off, crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person.

"But no. This last October, [then] just a few months ago, the Scottish Government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law."