Idaho governor signs abortion ban after 20 weeks
US News • April 2011 • Views: 1,009
Idaho’s governor said on Thursday he signed into law a measure banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, making Idaho the third state to enact such a late term abortion prohibition.
Speaking to reporters in Boise, the state capital, Governor Butch Otter, a Republican in his second term, said approving the measure was “the right thing to do.”
“I am right-to-life, I have been a right-to-life candidate in government all my life,” said Otter, who signed the bill on Wednesday with no advance notice and no fanfare.