PROPAGANDA OR SCIENCE? Iowa education bill would require students to watch fetal development video
Video cited in House bill was produced by anti-abortion groupAn education bill working its way through the Iowa House of Representatives would require a fetal development video to be shown to elementary school children. The video was produced by a group that opposes abortion. Abortion rights advocates say the video is propaganda and not medically accurate, while anti-abortion organizations praise the video and support the bill.
- Proponents of the bills say that the science is accurate, but opponents say the video cited as an example in the bill is not medically accurate.
- Ryan Benn of the conservative group, The Family Leader: “... It's true on the other side, a lot of abortion advocates seem to be very upset about the science of the video. But from our point of view, they seem to be upset because it clearly points to the conclusion that a little girl in the mother’s womb — she is a baby. She’s a human being that deserves to be protected. That’s our position.”
- Mazie Stilwell from Planned Parenthood of Iowa: “It’s simply propaganda. It is not medically accurate and the idea that here in Iowa we are interested in showing six-year-olds the process of a sperm fertilizing an egg and yet, at the same time, we are banning books across the board, is really difficult to square.”
PROPAGANDA OR SCIENCE? Iowa education bill would require students to watch fetal development video
A bill working its way through the Iowa Legislature would require a fetal development video to be shown to elementary school children. The video was produced by a group that opposes abortion.
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