Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has signed a pro-life bill to edcuate students about fetal development — an important measue given how many people don’t understand that an unborn baby is a human being starting at conception.
The bill will allow public school students to watch a pro-life metal development video that will properly educate them on the development of unborn children.
Tennessee, Iowa and West Virginia were considering approving bills that would require middle and high school students to watch Live Action’s “Baby Olivia” video. The video shows different stages of fetal development, complete with timestamps and a narrator describing the baby’s growth.
The pro-life group Live Action said the legislation would ” require all public schools in the state to include an approved prenatal child development segment in the state-mandated age-appropriate family life curriculum.
“Meet Baby Olivia” was created by Live Action in collaboration with medical experts, using data from the Endowment for Human Development (EHD), a non-profit organization “committed to neutrality regarding all controversial bioethical issues.” Yet pro-abortion media outlets have attacked “Baby Olivia” as being medically inaccurate, largely using abortionists or abortion activists as their sources. However, some have admitted that the real problem is that they feel “Baby Olivia” could ‘stigmatize’ abortion: the direct and intentional killing of preborn human beings, making young people more likely to choose life.
Women are indeed less likely to choose abortion if they are shown the humanity of their children.
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A poll from Focus on the Family, for example, found that 78% of women undecided about whether or not to have an abortion chose life after seeing the ultrasound of their baby. Understanding that the baby inside the womb is a real, living human being — and not just a meaningless clump of cells — can be incredibly powerful.
The common sense measure has been met with opposition from pro-abortion advocates and several Democratic lawmakers in all the states in which it is being considered. AP News published an article in February, calling the video “deceptive and problematic for a young audience.”
In The Tennessean article, Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, pushed back against the legislation and called it “unscientific and emotionally manipulative.”
“It parrots the same lies and misinformation that anti-abortion groups and lawmakers used to impose a total abortion ban on Tennessee,” she said, according to the news outlet.
In a February news release, Live Action founder and President Lila Rose maintained that the video is medically accurate and was created in collaboration with a panel of pro-life doctors, which included fetal and embryonic experts.
The Tennessee House Republican Caucus posted on X on March 19 that the “Baby Olivia” video is a medically reviewed, detailed depiction of the growth of a child from conception to birth.
“It tells the factual, biological truth about when human life begins,” the post said. “It is unsettling for pro-choice Americans and those at [the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists] because it shows what they would otherwise choose to ignore, which is the fact that from zygote to embryo to fetus to baby to toddler and so on, we are talking about human beings.”
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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has signed a pro-life bill to edcuate students about fetal development — an important measue given how many people don’t understand that an unborn baby is a human being starting at conception. The bill will allow public school students to watch a pro-life metal development video that will properly educate them […]
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