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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session
SB1066Family life education; inclusion of certain materials relating to human gestation required.
Direction
Abortionbans gestational limitsAI label
↓Restricts abortion accessmodel confidence 60%
Requires viewing of ultrasound videos of fetuses at 6-8, 15-17, and 27 weeks' gestation in family life education, so more students see later-stage fetal development images that can support arguments for gestational limits on abortion.
human reproduction, including the viewing of a video recording of an ultrasound of a live human fetus in the uterus at (i) six to eight weeks' gestation, (ii) 15 to 17 weeks' gestation, and (iii) 27 weeks' gestation;
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AbortionotherAI label
=No change to abortion accessmodel confidence 70%
Mandates inclusion of specific ultrasound videos of human gestation in public school family life education curriculum, which promotes viewing of fetal development without changing abortion access directly.
human reproduction, including the viewing of a video recording of an ultrasound of a live human fetus in the uterus at (i) six to eight weeks' gestation, (ii) 15 to 17 weeks' gestation, and (iii) 27 weeks' gestation;
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Filed (completed)
Committee
Passed one chamber
Passed both
Governor
Law
Status: Died (session ended)
Last action
2025-01-23: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends family life education standards to require viewing of ultrasound videos at specific gestational stages as part of human reproduction instruction. This is classified under abortion topics because it directly relates to fetal development visuals often used in abortion policy debates, with the specific stages chosen to illustrate later development (potentially supporting restrictions) but the provision itself being curricular rather than a direct change to abortion law. No other listed topics are substantively addressed.
Related bills
SB449Constitutional amendment; fundamental right to reproductive freedom(submitting to qualified voters).↑Expands abortion access↑Expands abortion access Law
SB548Abortion; born alive infant, treatment and care, penalty.↓Restricts abortion access=No change to abortion access Died (session ended)
HB781Constitutional amendment; fundamental right to reproductive freedom(submitting to qualified voters).↑Expands abortion access↓Restricts abortion access Law
HB2183Abortion; born alive infant, treatment and care, penalty.↓Restricts abortion access=No change to abortion access Died (session ended)
Hearings and calendar
2025-01-16 00:00 · Hearing · Senate Education and Health-Public Education Hearing Senate Room C, Room 311, General Assembly Building
2025-01-23 08:30 · Hearing · Senate Education and Health Hearing Senate Room A, Room 305, General Assembly Building
Votes
Date
Chamber
Motion
Yea-Nay
2025-01-23
S
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)