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Kansas GOP Overrides Veto of Bill Requiring Education on Fetal Development

Kansas Republicans overrode Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly’s vetoes of two pro-life bills late last week, including one that mandates public school instruction on fetal development.

The Kansas House voted 84-41 and the Senate voted 31-9 on Thursday to override Kelly’s veto of HB 2382, which requires school districts to “include a fetal development presentation as part of the curriculum for any course that addresses human growth, human development or human sexuality …,” the bill summary states. 

The override came one day after Kelly’s veto, in which the pro-abortion Democrat called the bill “convoluted, manipulative, and wrong for a number of reasons.” 

The bill specifically requires students in the state’s public schools to view a “presentation of a high-quality, computer-generated animation or high definition ultrasound of at least three minutes in duration that shows the development of the brain, heart…

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