Kentucky’s only surgical abortion provider won temporary relief Aug. 5 from a law requiring its physicians to display fetal ultrasound images and describe their contents to patients.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit temporarily halted the state’s implementation of the speech-and-display law. Its order gives EMW Women’s Surgical Center time to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case before it must comply with the law.
The Sixth Circuit declared the law valid in April, saying it doesn’t unconstitutionally compel physicans’ speech. The provision validly requires doctors to give patients truthful, nonmisleading information that is relevant ...
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