SB 119 – Fetal development curriculum – Sen. Drozda:
Requires each school corporation to include instruction regarding human fetal development in the school corporation’s high school health education curriculum. [Specifically]:
(1) the result of human sperm and egg convergence;
(2) the resulting development of human conception;
(3) the health consequences of early termination of pregnancy;
(4) photographic images portraying each state of uterine fetal development; and
(5) descriptions of human fetal development.
Well, let’s just add to that the risks of not terminating a pregnancy and photographic (perhaps audio and video would be better) portraying labor and delivery.
[tags]SB119-2007, abortion[/tags]
What exactly ARE they teaching kids in schools these days? When I was in high-school, they covered ALL of this – including the videos of childbirth. Did they revert back to the Stork while I was living out of state?
If they really wanted to teach kids abstinence, they’d make them take three kids under 5 to a shopping mall on Christmas Eve, and then to a nice dinner afterwards.
Brilliant!
I think this is a great thing to be taught in schools! There are several benefits — the top one, in my mind, being that the kids will be able to see how an unborn baby really is just as “human” as any one of the rest of us. I know that seeing pictures of the development of an unborn baby really made it more “real” to me.
Anyways…I think its good.
Taken by itself, it’s not too bad. But, the expanse of the pervasive pro-life legislative puzzle, of which this is a small piece, is a little annoying to me. Secondly, there is no balance to it. Carrying a birth to term has a great deal of risk and can also be illustrated in ways that have a visceral effect on the viewer. Finally, having the legislature micro-manage school curriculum seems generally to be a bad idea.