New 'heartbeat' abortion ban bill introduced in Idaho Senate KEITH RIDLER, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 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.