After a tense three-hour hearing, the House State Affairs Committee has approved controversial anti-abortion legislation on a straight party-line vote, 13-4, with only the committee’s four Democrats objecting. David Ripley of Idaho Chooses Life, author of HB 154, said, “This is a mechanism for women to defend themselves and to hold people accountable for misdeeds.” The bill puts new restrictions on abortions that are performed via medication, rather than by surgery. Backers said it would avoid “web cam” abortions, where the patient never sees a doctor in person, though doctors and others testified that that’s not how medication-induced abortions are performed in Idaho/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.

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