Abortion may be the most controversial issue in politics and in American culture today.
Most people are either firmly, Pro-life or Pro-choice.
Right now, there is a bill being discussed in the Ohio House that would require schools to show students a video that shows fetal development as early as in the third grade.

The computer-animated video is called "Meet Baby Olivia."
The 3-minute long video shows stages of human fetal development.
Showing this video in school health classes to grades 3-12 is part of House Bill 485.

Representative Melanie Miller helped introduce that bill that proponents say would show the beauty and complexity of early human life.

"It would be two requirements: one would be an ultrasound depiction. Real ultrasound images showing vital organs like the heart, liver and lungs. The development of the limbs. and also an animated video," said Rep. Miller.

Similar bills are being introduced in more than 20 other states, and Pro-Choice advocates call the move nothing but a step toward indoctrination.
Mandy Fehlbaum is with the local group "Steel Valley Reproductive Freedom Coalition."

"It was created by Live Action, which is an anti-choice group, a political group. I don't think political propaganda should be shown in schools. 3rd grade through 12th grade is not necessary. The law even states it has to be live Action's video that has to be shown," said Fehlbaum.

But Representative Miller says the video is medically accurate.

"This video was developed, Baby Olivia video was developed by a panel of doctors, including experts, embryonic experts on fetal development," said Rep. Miller.

"Parts of it are medically accurate but overall medical physicians would disagree with its medical accuracy given the language that it uses. They don't say what percentage survives outside the womb at 20 weeks, it's like, less than 1%," said Fehlbaum.

Planned Parenthood says the video is misleading and manipulative.
For instance, the narrator says that life begins when a sperm fertilizes an egg, but there is no scientific consensus on when life begins.

"There's nothing sexual or graphic in nature, it's science. It should be taught. I think part of the reason why the abortion advocates are so against it is because they believe that life is a blob of tissue in the womb and that it's not a baby," said Rep. Miller.

Right now, the bill sits in the House Education committee awaiting a 3rd hearing.
Representative Miller says she hopes it will come to a whole-house vote by the end of the year.

21 News reached out to the five local state representatives from the Mahoning Valley on how they would vote on the bill.
Rep. Dave Thomas was the only respondent. He said he would likely follow the committee's recommendation.