Dr. Julie Madsen, who engaged in a well-documented war of words with state Rep. Vito Barbieri earlier this week, speaks at a press conference/rally against two anti-abortion bills on Thursday in the rotunda of the state Capitol (Betsy Russell)

Dozens of women gathered in the Capitol rotunda over the noon hour today to denounce two anti-abortion bills now pending in the Idaho Legislature, HB 154, which is scheduled for House debate on Monday and would place new restrictions on medication-induced abortions in Idaho; and SB 1102, which is pending in a Senate committee and would require admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles for any doctor performing a surgical abortion. “These politicians must think we are stupid, if they think we want politicians playing doctor and interfering in our private decisions,” declared Kathy Griesmyer of the Idaho ACLU/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.

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