{"id":309783,"date":"2024-04-04T16:51:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T21:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=309783"},"modified":"2024-04-08T17:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T22:27:37","slug":"tennessee-olivia-heads-governor-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-olivia-heads-governor-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Senate passes ‘Baby Olivia’ bill, which heads to governor’s desk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Tennessee Senate passed<\/a> House Bill 2435 on Thursday, which would require public schools in the state to include an approved prenatal child development ultrasound or computer animation as part of the state-required age-appropriate family life curriculum. It lists Live Action’s “Meet Baby Olivia” as an example of a computer animation that would meet the bill’s requirements but does not specifically require “Baby Olivia” to be shown.<\/p>\n

The Senate passed<\/a> the bill in a vote of 21 to 6 after it previously passed<\/a> the Tennessee House on March 18 in a 67-23 vote. The bill requires that schools show a “high-quality, computer generated animation” or “high-definition” ultrasound that shows fetal development of the heart, brain, and other vital organs.<\/p>\n

Yet, because the “Baby Olivia” video was created by Live Action, Tennessee Democrats have questioned its neutrality and medical accuracy. According to The Tennessean<\/a>, state legislators who oppose the bill have called the educational video of human development in the womb an effort \u201cto advance the idea that fetuses are people and that abortion care is wrong.” An amendment sponsored by Senate Minority Caucus Chair London Lamar (D) would have required schools to give a disclaimer telling students that the video is “political propaganda” and “medically inaccurate,” but that amendment failed.<\/p>\n