In very related news, FDA commissioner Makary is reportedly slow-walking a politicized review that could be weaponized to roll back access to mifepristone because he doesn't want any changes before the 2026 midterms. That would not be "leaving abortion to the states," as Trump claimed in campaign

The House votes, approving House Bill 485 to go to the Ohio Senate for further deliberation next year.

You can contact your member of the Ohio Senate and tell them you oppose anti-abortion propaganda in schools: abortionforward.org/propaganda/

Rep. Josh Williams opposes the amendment that would change the range of grades the bill applies to... because of his own transphobia.

This man continues to create new and creative ways to be the most disgusting member of the Ohio legislature.

Rep. @berylbrownpic.bsky.social moves to amend the bill to address IVF, which the video does not acknowledge as a pathway to parenthood. She notes that the 2023 Issue 1 amendment specifically supports IVF.

"It's not medically accurate." - Rep. @robinsonforoh.bsky.social is dismantling the terrible ideas included in House Bill 485. He's sharing his experience as a parent with a child taking sex education classes in school and how the bill neglects educational need.

Why does Ohio have no health education standards? It's because the Republican majority in the state legislature doesn't want to accept the fact that education experts and parents across the state want their students to receive comprehensive sex education.

This bill ain't it.

Bill sponsor Melanie Miller says the Baby Olivia "does not replace Ohio's education standards."

Well, she's technically correct in that OHIO IS THE ONLY STATE WITH NO HEALTH EDUCATION STANDARDS. This video does not in any way address that massive missing need.

Public schools are not a place to make religious assertions out to be fact, nor a battleground for the political ends the adults who are supposed to protect our children’s education decide to take up.

Live Action has been reviewed and confirmed by third parties to promote pseudoscience and whose “sole mission is to discredit Planned Parenthood and to advocate for pro-life policies.”

The video recommended by the Baby Olivia Act is also full of medical inaccuracies and misleading talking points. This use of inaccurate and misleading content is part of a greater trend—and arguably the organizational mission—of Live Action, creator of the Baby Olivia video.

Sponsors and proponents of HB 485 claim that the bill is about “instruction in human growth and development.” In fact, it mandates the insertion of a single political agenda and worldview into our public-school curriculum, a worldview many Americans do not subscribe to.

The Ohio House is now debating House Bill 485, to force teachers to show students in grades 5-12 an anti-abortion propaganda video.

The Ohio House votes to pass this harmful and unconstitutional legislation. The bill heads to the Ohio Senate for further deliberation next year. You can contact Ohio state senator and demand they oppose it: abortionforward.org/medication-a...