Anti-abortion group plans Idaho Capitol ultrasound

BOISE (AP) — Anti-abortion activists hope to gain attention with a live ultrasound exhibition in the Idaho Capitol, part of their efforts to convince lawmakers to require a sonogram on women before an abortion.

Republican Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll of Cottonwood announced the exhibition in the Capitol's West Wing 53 at noon on Wednesday.

Nuxoll says senators, their families, Capitol staff and media will be allowed inside.

The bill to force Idaho women to undergo an ultrasound before getting an abortion passed the Senate Monday, 23-12.

It's been among the 2012 Legislature most-contested issues.

Wednesday's planned exhibition, with women in all stages of pregnancy, will likely be hotly debated, as well.

Previously, activists from Boise's Stanton Healthcare, an anti-abortion center that's also behind the Idaho exhibition, held a similar 2011 exhibition in Washington, D.C.