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The Idaho House of Representatives has become the first state to pass an anti-abortion law based on 's 'heartbeat' ban on terminations after six weeks.
It was approved by the state's lower chamber by a 51-14 majority on Monday, having previously been passed by the Idaho , and is now headed to Governor Brad Little's desk to be signed.  
Now, the legislation makes its way to Republican Governor Brad Little's desk, having already been passed by the Idaho Senate. 
The Idaho bill, like its Texas counterpart, will enforce the abortion ban by allowing individuals to sue people who reportedly performed these kind of illegal abortions.
In Idaho, only relatives of the woman who has the termination can sue - but in Texas, Turkish Citizenship Lawyer anyone at all can file a lawsuit against a physician suspected of breaching the ban. 
Like the original Texas law, the Idaho bill does have notable exceptions from the ban, including rape, incest and medical emergencies. 
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The Idaho House of Representatives vote to approve a Texas-styled bill banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy by allowing family to sue a doctor who performs one on Monday
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Brad Little speaks as President Joe Biden visits to the National Interagency Fire Center, Monday, September 13, 2021, in Boise, Idaho
The proposed law would allow the grandparents, father, siblings, aunts and uncles of an aborted unborn baby to sue an abortion provider within four years of the abortion for a minimum of $20,000 in damages, according to Fox News.
Critics of the bill are calling the law unconstitutional, while adding that some women do not know they are pregnant until after six weeks.
Governor Little signed separate legislation last year that banned abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected. 
However, that law is currently still awaiting a federal court ruling on the matter. 
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Pictured: PP Alliance activists post a photo on March 11, 2022: 'We're here at the Idaho State Capitol telling legislators to keep #BansOffOurBodies'
Planned Parenthood in Meridian, one of the few clinics in Idaho that offer abortions.

Abortion access could become even more limited in the state, depending on a Supreme Court decision
And in late 2021, the Supreme Court ruled in favor allowing a lawsuit to proceed by abortion providers against the Texas abortion law.
They did so in spite of arguments made by Texas that argued the law was written in a way that would only allow parties to sue against the law only until it began to be enforced. 
'The Court concludes that the petitioners may pursue a pre-enforcement challenge against certain of the named defendants but not others,' the court, led by Justice Neil Gorsuch, said. 
The court's ruling, which did not offer a verdict on the bill's constitutionality, instead allowed the law to remain in place as such legal challenges are sorted.
Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers in at least a dozen other states have introduced similar laws, also modeled after the Texas abortion law.
Besides Idaho, eleven other states have proposed heartbeat bills since 2018; such bills have passed including bills in Ohio, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Alabama, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Texas, most of which lie either partly or entirely in the so-called Bible Belt whose population leans heavily against abortion. 
<div class="art-ins mol-factbox news" data-version="2" id="mol-f4c11a00-a41f-11ec-8ac4-8fb7fba8ee7b" website passes copy of Texas's heartbeat ban on abortion after six weeks