The Tennessee legislature has approved a bill that 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.
Yesterday the Tennessee state Senate passed the measure and now it goes to pro-life Governor Bill Lee for his signature.
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.”
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“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.”
