South Dakota public school students would be required to receive instruction on prenatal human growth and development under a ...

The bill previously passed on a 10-3 vote Feb. 10 in the House Health and Human Services committee, a 52-10 vote Feb. 12 in the House, and a 6-1 vote in the Senate Health and Human Services committee ...

If the bill becomes law, the state Board of Education Standards would create “age-appropriate and research-based instruction” on prenatal development, to include a video on the stages of development.

From early prenatal development through childhood, the prefrontal cortex of the human brain undergoes a rush of developmental activity. In some cases, it also contains seeds of neuropsychiatric ...