Doctors must perform ultrasounds and have women listen to fetal heartbeats before performing abortions.
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The Supreme Court on Monday [Dec. 9, 2019] left in place a Kentucky law, mandating doctors perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients before they can perform abortions.
The high court declined, without comment, to hear an appeal brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the state’s lone abortion clinic.
The Kentucky law, which requires a doctor to describe an ultrasound in detail while a pregnant woman hears the fetal heartbeat, was passed in 2017.
Supreme Court leaves in place Kentucky abortion law mandating ultrasounds