Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case on Kentucky Law That Requires Doctors to Show Ultrasound Before Abortion

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case on Kentucky Law That Requires Doctors to Show Ultrasound Before Abortion
A doctor performs an ultrasound on a pregnant woman during her visit to a gynecologist in a file photo. Jasper Jacobs/AFP/Getty Images
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The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review a case on a Kentucky law that requires doctors to show and describe ultrasound images to a patient before an abortion.

The high court justices declined on Dec. 9 (pdf) to reconsider an appeals court decision that upholds the state’s abortion law, effectively allowing the law to stand. They didn’t provide any comments or dissents on the decision.