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Senate prints bill to clarify reproductive‑health protections; sponsors cite doctor exodus in northern Idaho
Summary
The Senate State Affairs Committee voted to print RS32699, a draft intended to clarify Idaho law on care for complicated pregnancies and lethal fetal anomalies; sponsors said the change aims to retain physicians after closures and exits in northern Idaho.
Representative Mark Sauter and State Sen. Jim Woodward presented RS32699 to the Senate State Affairs Committee Friday for a print hearing. The committee voted to introduce the routing slip for print; the motion carried.
Representative Mark Sauter, who represents Sandpoint, told the committee that local health care capacity has declined since March 2023 when a labor‑and‑delivery unit closed. “Since that time we’ve had three OBGYN doctors leave town,” Sauter said, and he added that a maternal‑fetal specialist and her emergency‑room‑physician…
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