Lawmaker wants to add pro-life video from anti-abortion group to Tennessee school curriculum
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee schools could be required to play a controversial fetal development video produced by a pro-life organization in its family life curriculum courses.
A bill currently making its way through committees is HB2435 by Rep. Gino Bulso (R-Brentwood).
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A caption bill introduced and then amended with entirely different language, HB2453 would require any family life curriculum course that “directly or indirectly addresses human growth, human development, or human sexuality” to include a video “such as” that of “Meet Baby Olivia” to be shown as part of the course.
According to the bill, “Meet Baby Olivia” is a video developed by Live Action that “shows the process of fertilization and the stages of human development inside the uterus.”
Live Action is a staunch anti-abortion nonprofit that claims to represent the “humanity of the preborn” and exposing the “abortion industry” for “exploiting women and families for profit.”
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Thus far, Bulso’s bill has made its way through a House subcommittee and is set to be heard by the House Education Instruction committee on Tuesday, March 12. It will be heard in the Senate Education Committee the following day, according to the Capitol calendar.
The bill passed along party lines in the House Education Instruction subcommittee on Thursday, March 6, with Democrats opposed.
Tennessee is the latest state to take up the “Baby Olivia” legislation, following similar action in West Virginia, Iowa and Kentucky, according to Live Action. The video is already required in North Dakota, according to the Associated Press.
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