“It’s just a clump of cells.”
We’ve all heard it before. Bad actors have infiltrated school systems and replaced science-based understanding of early human development with politically motivated catchphrases, and it shows. But with today’s technological advancements, we can offer young students an incredible, true glimpse into life in the womb and provide a shared understanding of the science of early human development.
Educational organizations and OBGYNs have come together to create a realistic view into human life in the womb, and the results are astonishing. Students and adults alike can enjoy a detailed, realistic view of development from conception to birth, offering a picture-perfect view of a miracle. For example, watch Live Action’s Baby Olivia or Baby Oliver videos:
Videos like these bring biology and health education to new heights while filling a gap that public curriculum has lacked for decades.
Several states, including Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, and Kansas, have all passed legislation to include this in public curriculum, and several more are slated to do so this session. Ohio and Oklahoma have already passed it through their lower chambers, and Florida and South Dakota heard the bill this week.
A Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) sponsored legislation, the Early Human Life Development Education Act, requires a high-definition ultrasound video and other computer-generated graphics depicting each stage of development with developmental milestones facts, such as:
-5 weeks; development of the brain, heart, and other vital organs
-8 weeks; development of the heart and limbs
-Second and Third Trimester development every five weeks
Down in the Sunshine State, the House Education and Employment Committee heard an education package bill that included instruction on fetal development. Young Women for America Ambassador Grace Herold told the Committee, “Human life is beautiful, let’s give the next generation a better glimpse into this truth.”
The very same day, CWA leader Lisa Gennaro explained to the South Dakota House Health and Human Services Committee, “This curriculum helps young people grasp the incredible womb journey—not politically, but as an empowering scientific fact—fostering deep appreciation for biology’s wonders in a positive, loving light.”
There are few things more marvelous than the beginnings of life itself, and the more we dwell on its beauty, the more we should cherish not only life in the womb, but our own lives. It is wholly insufficient and inappropriate to leave fetal development out of reproductive biology education, especially with the widely available resources we have today. We should continue to spark wonder at age-appropriate times and allow scientific reality to guide children’s biology and health education.
