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WASHINGTON 鈥� The Supreme Court announced today it would not review a decision by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upholding Kentucky鈥檚 forced narrated ultrasound law against a First Amendment challenge.

Today鈥檚 ruling allows H.B. 2, Kentucky鈥檚 forced, narrated ultrasound law, to take effect. The physicians at Kentucky鈥檚 last abortion clinic will be forced to subject every patient to their ultrasound images, a detailed description of those images, and the sounds of the fetal heart tones prior to an abortion 鈥� even if the patient objects or is covering their eyes and blocking their ears, and even if the physician believes that doing so will cause harm to the patient.

鈥淏y refusing to review the Sixth Circuit鈥檚 ruling, the Supreme Court has rubber-stamped extreme political interference in the doctor-patient relationship,鈥� said Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, senior staff attorney at the 老澳门开奖结果 Reproductive Freedom Project. 鈥淭his law is not only unconstitutional, but as leading medical experts and ethicists explained, deeply unethical. We are extremely disappointed that the Supreme Court will allow this blatant violation of the First Amendment and fundamental medical ethics to stand.鈥�

H.B. 2 has been widely and unequivocally condemned by the medical community, including in friend-of-the-court briefs submitted by the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American Public Health Association, as well as by more than 130 leading biomedical ethicists from around the country.