Rep. Steve Kren, R-Nampa, presented legislation to the House State Affairs Committee this morning to ban abortions for reasons of gender or race; the committee voted 12-5 along party lines to introduce the bill, though several members raised questions about the wording and legal implications of the bill. Rep. Anne Pasley-Stuart, D-Boise, asked Kren if he has an attorney general's opinion of his bill; he said no, but that if it were introduced, he'd seek one. "This is some legislation that was brought to us by a gentleman out of the Eagle area, and this is something we wanted to discuss," Kren told the committee. "Is this a problem? Is this something we want to have as a preventive statute, to protect the unborn from abortion by race or sex?"