Iowa Starts the Work of Turning Public Opinion on Abortion

A new education law should be a model for the nation.

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Fetal ultrasound during a gynecologist appointment.

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Pro-life advocates haven’t had much good news in recent years, as pro-abortion-rights measures have repeatedly passed, even in usually Republican states. They should take heart, however, from a new Iowa law that could help start to turn public opinion in a pro-life direction.

That law requires schools to show students in grades five to twelve a video or ultrasound that depicts each stage of fetal development. Teenagers will learn about when the heart and brain develop, for example, and exactly how the unborn child goes from a fertilized egg to the crying human being that enters the world upon birth.

Henry Olsen

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Henry Olsen

Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the author of The Working-Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism.

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