{"id":328581,"date":"2025-03-26T18:35:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=328581"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:49:58","slug":"oklahoma-house-high-school-prenatal-education-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/oklahoma-house-high-school-prenatal-education-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma House passes high school curriculum bill that could utilize ‘Baby Olivia’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lawmakers in the Oklahoma House passed a prenatal development education bill Wednesday that could utilize videos like Live Action’s “Baby Olivia” in the state’s classrooms.<\/p>\n

House Bill 1603<\/a>, sponsored by Rep. Emily Gise (R-Oklahoma City), mandates fetal growth and human development instruction to the state’s high schoolers, using a \u201chigh-definition ultrasound video, at least three minutes in duration, showing the development of the fetus in a biological woman\u201d and a \u201chigh-quality, computer-generated rendering or animation showing the process of fetal development, highlighting significant markers in cell growth and organ development until birth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The “Baby Olivia” video meets the second of these requirements. The video depicts the development of life in the womb, featuring a timeline for prenatal milestones. It was created by Live Action in collaboration with medical experts, using data from the Endowment for Human Development<\/a>\u00a0(EHD), a non-profit organization \u201c\u200b\u200bcommitted to\u00a0neutrality<\/a> regarding all controversial bioethical issues,” which has created its own award-winning prenatal development DVD that is distributed by National Geographic.<\/p>\n

“Baby Olivia” has been heavily attacked by abortion supporters, who have made wild claims<\/a>, even calling it “Christian nationalist indoctrination” and “propaganda.” Live Action News has repeatedly debunked<\/a> claims that the “Baby Olivia” video is medically inaccurate (with the main objection being that it tracks human development from fertilization onward instead of adding an additional two weeks for the time period between menstruation and ovulation\/conception), and the video makes no mention of religion, or even abortion<\/em> \u2014 it simply presents a scientifically accurate look at the human’s development in the womb, thereby demonstrating that child’s humanity. The video quickly unravels the false idea that a preborn child is merely a “glob” or a “clump of cells.”<\/p>\n