A Catholic teacher says she was dismissed from a school in Scotland after telling pupils she opposed abortion because of her faith.

Sarah Morse, who recently began work as a history teacher in Angus after moving from the United States, said pupils asked about American politics during one of her lessons after learning where she was from.

She said her National 5 history class had been studying the rise of Adolf Hitler when pupils began asking questions about political issues in the United States.

According to Morse, one pupil asked for her views on abortion, to which she replied: “I am a faithful Roman Catholic and I am against it,” before adding that pupils were free to form their own opinions on the issue.

Morse said she was later called into a meeting with senior staff and dismissed.

“I was not offered any sort of right of reply, asked for my account of what happened or how my legally protected beliefs were raised in the context of a history class and the head teacher wouldn’t even see me,” she told The Sunday Times.

Morse said she had previously taught in schools across the United States and Canada without facing criticism for expressing her personal views when asked by pupils.

“To be ‘cancelled’ and lose my livelihood because of my religious identity is a terrifying precedent for the teaching profession in Scotland,” she added.

Morse is being supported by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), a pro-life campaign group.

A spokesman for Angus Council, which runs the school, told the Telegraph: "This matter is the subject of ongoing legal proceedings and therefore it would be inappropriate for us to comment."