Bill that would require anti-abortion school curriculum advances in Oklahoma House

The exterior of the state Capitol in Oklahoma City, Okla., on Monday, February 1, 2016. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World

OKLAHOMA CITY — A bill that would require public high schools to incorporate an anti-abortion message into their curricula advanced Monday from the Oklahoma House Appropriations and Budget Subcommittee on Education.

House Bill 2797, by Rep. Ann Coody, R-Lawton, would also authorize state-funded public service announcements “for the purpose of achieving an abortion-free society.”

The bill is called the “Humanity of the Unborn Child Act,” and Coody said its intention is to instruct teenagers that life begins at conception.