Idaho Senate introduces bill telling women abortion can be halted

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An Idaho legislative panel has introduced a measure requiring the state to distribute information telling women that a drug-induced abortion may be halted halfway through, despite physicians warning there’s not enough science backing up that claim.

The Senate State Affairs Committee introduced the measure Wednesday, clearing it for a legislative hearing.

Meridian Republican Senator Lori Den Hartog says the goal is to give women as much information as possible before deciding to have an abortion.

Proponents of the idea say doctors can give a woman the hormone progesterone to stop an abortion after she has taken the first of two medications needed to complete the procedure.

Arizona passed a similar law, but it was repealed after Planned Parenthood took the issue to court.  (AP)