(AP) — A bill that would have put Louisiana in line with a newly passed Oklahoma law considered among the nation’s strictest abortion regulation was watered down Wednesday by a state Senate committee.The measure would have required anyone seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound and to listen to a detailed description of the fetus before getting an abortion. The description would include the dimensions of the fetus and whether arms, legs or internal organs are visible. The woman also would have been required to get a photograph of the ultrasound.But senators on the Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted 5-3 to strip the requirements of the description and the ultrasound print, instead making them optional. Senators said they didn’t want to force women to get information they didn’t want to receive and didn’t want to require decisions that should be left to doctors.”We’re talking about a physician who has gone through 10 years of school. How can we start mandating medical decision-making?” said Sen. David Heitmeier, D-New Orleans.The proposal heads next to the full Senate for debate — but only after Sen. Joe McPherson, D-Woodworth, extracted a promise from the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Sharon Weston Broome, that she won’t allow any changes that would put the bill back in its original form.”I won’t go back on my word,” Broome, D-Baton Rouge, said after the committee hearing.That doesn’t stop lawmakers from attempting to amend the language into one of several other abortion proposals moving through the Louisiana Legislature, however.Supporters of Broome’s bill were clear on their intention: hoping that the ultrasound pictures and a description of the fetus could change a woman’s mind and dissuade her from getting an abortion.—–Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]