<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div><div></div><div>Courtesy of KHQ at:</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.khq.com/story/17154440/senate-panel-to-take-up-abortion-ultrasound-bill"><a href="http://www.khq.com/story/17154440/senate-panel-to-take-up-abortion-ultrasound-bill">http://www.khq.com/story/17154440/senate-panel-to-take-up-abortion-ultrasound-bill</a></a></div><div><div> </div><div>------------------------------</div><div> </div><div id="WNStoryHeader" style="margin-bottom: 13px; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 12px; "><h3 class="" style="display: block; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: bold; ">Idaho Senate panel OKs abortion ultrasound mandate</h3></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 12px; "><div id="WNStoryBody" class="" style="font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 15px; display: inline; "><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho stepped closer to requiring women to have an ultrasound of their fetus before terminating a pregnancy, a measure anti-abortion advocates hope will convince more women to opt against such a procedure.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Boise Sen. Chuck Winder's legislation cleared the Senate State Affairs Committee Wednesday on a 7-2 vote, with Republicans favoring it and Democrats voting against.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">More than 200 people packed the emotional two-hour hearing.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">There, opponents compared the bill to laws favored by Afghanistan's Taliban, while advocates argued those who would oppose requiring women to view their fetus were comparable to Holocaust deniers.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Several outbursts from the crowd had to be gaveled down. One woman afterward shouted, "What happened to separation of church and state?"</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Meanwhile, anti-abortion activists announced plans to demonstrate an ultrasound procedure inside the Capitol.</p></div></span><div>------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:526365E0-57F9-4826-92B4-5535AC458341" alt="image.jpeg" id="526365E0-57F9-4826-92B4-5535AC458341" width="652" height="360" apple-original-width="652" apple-original-height="360"><br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div></div></body></html>