WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from North Carolina to revive a requirement that abortion providers show and describe an ultrasound to the pregnant woman before she has an abortion.
The justices on Monday left in place an appeals court decision that said the 2011 North Carolina law was “ideological in intent” and violated doctors’ free-speech rights.
The North Carolina law would have required abortion providers to display and describe the ultrasound even if the woman refused to look and listen — a mandate that the court found particularly troublesome.
The Guttmacher Institute says North Carolina is among 23 states, mostly in the South and the Midwest, that passed laws dealing with the administration of ultrasounds by abortion providers.
Justice Antonin Scalia voted to hear the appeal.
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Well, I guess North Carolina will now suffer the obligatory rain of toads and blood before suffering an eventual mega-drought.
Their religious opt-out for performing gay weddings may temporarily appease the god of wrath.
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Interesting that his lap dog, Thomas, didn’t join him.
“Interesting that his lap dog, Thomas, didn’t join him.”
He’s a Senator now (pause) and busy putting legislation together banning those annoying ‘Employees Must Wash Hands’ signs in bathrooms across commercial America.
BTW, it’s Thom Tillis and yes (pause) he’s my senator.