Iowa Lawmakers want 'renderings or animation' of human 'fertilization process,' but not books about sex or teachers talking about gender
Some might argue this should be a family issue, but there are always dangerous people who want to think for themselves
The great and glorious Iowa Legislature remains obsessed with sex and school children.
Our infallible leaders passed a law last year that banned books depicting sex from school libraries and muzzled teachers from talking about gender identity and sexual orientation issues with students through sixth grade.
Now lawmakers want students from kindergarten through their senior year to watch fetal development videos.
“The legislation requires that teachers show students an ultrasound video and video showing the development of the brain, heart, and other organs in fetal development, as well as a rendering or animation showing the process of fertilization and fetal development during a pregnancy until birth,” writes Robin Opshal of the Capital Dispatch.
Read that again: “a rendering or animation showing the process of fertilization.”
Let that sink in.
Just how much of that process do lawmakers want to be shown?
How anatomically correct are we supposed to get here?
We lowly peasants might use another word to describe the process of fertilization: Sex.
Sex might involve some discussion of gender. Schools have already been told not to go there.
So, to clarify, public school students in sixth grade and younger are prohibited from reading about sex in books.
Videos and cartoons about sex, however, would be OK under House File 2031.
What’s next — a bill outlawing puberty?
As a teacher, I always support unfunded mandates from the state government.
Teaching reading, writing, math, and science is super easy, and barely an inconvenience.
Teachers should be made to work harder.
Lord knows teachers command the absolute attention of their pupils.
If I tell a student to read a book, watch a PowerPoint presentation, or fill out a worksheet, they do it without complaint.
Students come to us as empty vessels. We just fill them with knowledge.
Schoolchildren willingly and without hesitation set aside their backgrounds, their family and personal values, and their experiences for whatever educators ask of them.
They can’t get enough school, these kids.
The law would allow the use of a video called “Meet Baby Olivia” by the anti-abortion group Live Action.
The video tells viewers life begins at conception.
There’s much debate about that.
Who cares?
It doesn’t matter if you disagree.
It doesn’t matter, as the Capital Dispatch notes, that the “Baby Olivia” video tells viewers a fetus begins movement between five and six weeks, but respected medical professionals at Mount Sinai Health System say that movement doesn’t start until 15 to 21 weeks.
It doesn’t matter that research shows that a third to half of all fertilized eggs never implant and don’t become fetuses.
None of it matters.
All that matters is that we have faith in our state government and great and glorious leader Gov. Kim Reynolds.
She and our lawmakers are set on making their beliefs the law.
Indoctrinate the children as early as possible for maximum ideological assimilation.
Groom them, one might say.
Iowans only have the freedom of speech and religion if they use those freedoms to support the political party in power.
Who best guides children on how to navigate the complex issues of human development, abortion, and morality than the government?
Some might suggest parents and families.
That’s risky, though.
There are always those dangerous outliers who want to think for themselves and live on their own terms.
This kind of thing must be stamped out.
This is the way in the People’s Republic of Iowa.
Daniel P. Finney wrote for newspapers for 27 years before being laid off in 2020. He teaches middle school English now. Follow him at paragraphstacker.substack.com.
OMG! That first line cracked me UP! So true!! They are pervs!!!! That’s the only explanation. TBH i haven’t even read the rest yet I just had to comment while I’m laughing! :D
I was a fan of yours when you wrote for the Register, and I missed you!
I’m glad to see that you haven’t lost your touch (You watch your phraseology!)