{"id":308684,"date":"2024-03-14T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T15:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=308684"},"modified":"2024-03-19T20:34:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T01:34:33","slug":"tennessee-house-bill-fetal-development-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-house-bill-fetal-development-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee House committee approves bill requiring fetal development video in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Tennessee House Education Instruction Committee approved<\/a> a bill on Tuesday that would require that public schools include an approved preborn child development ultrasound or computer animation as part of the state-required family life curriculum.<\/p>\n

House Bill 2435 lists Live Action’s “Meet Baby Olivia” as an example of a computer animation that would meet the bill’s requirements. Schools could choose to show a different three-minute animation or high-resolution ultrasound, according to the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Gino Bulso. If this bill is signed into law, schools will begin using fetal development videos in the 2024-2025 school year.<\/p>\n

A similar bill was enacted<\/a> in North Dakota last year, and others have also been introduced in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Missouri, and Iowa. The bills, along with the “Baby Olivia” video itself, have come under heavy attack<\/a> from pro-abortion groups. The Associated Press painted<\/a> the video as a pro-life political move, and used pro-abortion sources to attempt to discredit the video. However, “Baby Olivia” has the backing of medical experts and was created using detailed \u201caward-winning content\u201d from the Endowment for Human Development (EHD). EHD is a self-described \u201cnonprofit organization dedicated to improving health science education and public health\u201d which is \u201c\u200b\u200bcommitted to neutrality<\/a>\u00a0regarding all controversial bioethical issues.\u201d Its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0states that its \u201cboard of directors, board of advisors, staff, and volunteers includes accomplished educators, researchers, authors, programmers, and clinicians from a variety of scientific and business disciplines who share the common goal of improving lifelong health through prenatal development-based education.\u201d<\/p>\n