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Idaho Abortion Fight Headed To 2013

Among a sea of baby dresses and posters showing fetal development at the Twin Falls Pregnancy Crisis Center sits a new, hi-tech ultrasound machine, capable of giving both abdominal and transvaginal ultrasounds. To Pregnancy Crisis Center Director Marilyn Scott, the ultrasound machine is one of the center’s most important tools in the fight against abortion. The volunteer staff is still receiving training to use the machine — so it is not yet in use on a regular basis. But Scott said that in her experience, clients set on getting abortions have changed their mind upon seeing the blurry black and white image of their fetus on the ultrasound monitor. That’s why she and others worked for five years to fundraise to bring an ultrasound machine into their office. It’s a battle Scott and the volunteers at the Pregnancy Crisis Center have been quietly waging for years and won’t give up on any time soon/Malissa Davlin, Twin Falls Times-News. More here. (Adam Eschbach's Idaho Press-Tribune file photo: Dixie Herring of Nampa kisses her one-year-old nephew Jackson Adams at the Rally for Life in Boise March 26)

Question: Do you expect controversial pre-abortion ultrasound legislation to return and be passed by the 2013 Legislature?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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