Heather Has Two Mommies- Banned Book

Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman has been challenged on many different accounts. The book starts out by explaining there are two friends, Jane and Kate, and they suddenly find out they are in love with each other. They then want to have a baby, and have to figure out which woman would hold the baby. After they decided, they had a baby girl named Heather. Heather doesn't realize her family life is different until she goes to a pre-school like setting, and all of the children have to talk about their families. They discuss their fathers jobs, and being very upset, Heather realizes and announces, "I don't have a daddy." Then, she realizes she is not alone, and some kids have two daddies, some two daddies and one mommy, some a mom and a sister, and so on.
The book was banned mostly due to the fact that people did not want the "homosexual" lifestyle to be put onto their children. The book was meant to show that there are many different kinds of families. That is fine, except for the part that talks about wombs, sperm, and egg. That part was challenged the most, and ended up being taken out of the book. I feel with this part out of the book, that it is fine to use in the classroom to show different types of families. But with it, I would not recommend it at all.