Among the testimony so far this morning on the pre-abortion ultrasound bill:

Yvette Sedlewicz of Boise said transvaginal ultrasounds performed as a result of passage of the bill "should be considered mechanical rape by government - I am sure this is considered a form of torture." She said. "Keep your noses out of women's business. We do not like you and what you are trying to do to women."

Jean Hudlett of the Life Choices Pregnancy Center in Sandpoint told the committee, "I do like you." Susan Young, director of the Sandpoint center, said, "They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This bill would require a woman seeking an abortion to have a real picture, with sound, of the fetus she she is seeking to have removed from her body."

When Young compared abortion to the Holocaust, Sen. Michelle Stennett, D-Ketchum, objected. "I completely agree with Sen. Davis, we should keep the slander down," she said. Young said, "I apologize, it wasn't meant to be slander."

Jill Jasper told the senators it's "already a standard of care" for an ultrasound to be performed before an abortion. That, she said, is "what makes this issue so emotional." She urged against the bill.

Marilyn Scott, director of the Pregnancy Crisis Center in Twin Falls, told the committee of hearing from a woman who had been given RU-486 to induce an abortion at home, after being told her fetus was "just a clump of tissue." The woman called her, she said, and "She was screaming at me, saying 'It's a baby, it's a baby.'"

Dwight Scarborough told the committee, "I agree, we should be respectful of each other. I learned respect as a veteran." He said, "I will not stand by and watch the state intrude on people's lives like this.  It's been tried before - the Nazis tried forced sterilization." He was gaveled for that reference.