Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Abortion-Disclosure Rules
- Rebuff of clinic, doctors is victory for abortion opponents
- Kentucky makes doctors describe fetus even if woman objects
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The U.S. Supreme Court left intact a Kentucky law that forces doctors who perform abortions to first show the woman an ultrasound and give her a detailed description of the fetus, even if she doesn’t want to listen.
The justices, without comment or published dissent, on Monday rejected an appeal by the state’s only abortion clinic and its three doctors, who said the law violates their free speech rights. A divided federal appeals court upheld the 2017 measure, saying it was a legitimate “informed consent” requirement.