New heartbeat abortion ban bill introduced in Idaho Senate
KEITH RIDLER, Associated Press
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) Lawmakers on a Senate panel on Friday introduced a new version of legislation that would outlaw abortions in Idaho after fetal heartbeats are detected.
The Senate State Affairs Committee approved holding a public hearing on the measure that increases to a felony the penalty for performing those abortions. Under the new bill, women who have those abortions could also sue people who performed them.
The penalty in the previous version of the bill called for disciplinary action for medical professionals by the Idaho Board of Medicine.
March 9, 2021
Idaho Governor Brad Little kicked off a covid-19 vaccine press conference Tuesday by marking the one-year anniversary of the first case of the virus in the state. Despite the grim anniversary, Little was cautiously optimistic about the state’s coronavirus case trajectory.
SPR s Doug Nadvornick reports.
Idaho officials say the days of time-consuming searches for Covid vaccines in the Gem State are over.
“What we’ve done is created one spot where people can go and they can enter their information and say, I’m interested in being vaccinated, said Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Director Dave Jeppesen.
He says that doesn’t mean you’ll be able to schedule a shot whenever you want. The demand still outpaces the supply. But Jeppesen says the new system will at least give residents one centralized place to register.
Dave Jeppesen: “The providers, when they have appointments available and assuming that person is eligible, either over 65 or whatever the criteria is at that point in time, the providers will then reach out and then schedule those individuals for appointments. It’s really meant to take that frustration out of wanting to get an appointment, not being on a list somewhere and having to come every day or every hour to find
Idaho is approaching the one-year anniversary of the first confirmed COVID-19 case in the state. The state has been vaccinating eligible residents since