{"id":64873,"date":"2015-06-15T20:47:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T00:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=64873"},"modified":"2015-06-15T20:47:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T00:47:14","slug":"supreme-court-denies-review-north-carolina-ultrasound-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/supreme-court-denies-review-north-carolina-ultrasound-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court denies review of North Carolina ultrasound law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The U.S. Supreme Court has opted not to review a North Carolina ultrasound law struck down by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, SCOTUSblog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2015\/06\/a-gesture-in-favor-of-a-womans-abortion-choice\/\">reports<\/a>. The 8-1 decision, rendered without comment and opposed only by Justice Antonin Scalia, effectively ends state pro-lifers\u2019 hopes of seeing the law take effect in its current form.<\/p>\n<p>Enacted in 2011 and invalidated in December 2014\u2019s <em>Walker-McGill v. Stuart<\/em>, the Woman\u2019s Right to Know Act drew legal challenge on the grounds that, beyond requiring the performance of an ultrasound before an abortion, an abortionist must also verbally describe what the ultrasound displays.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis compelled speech, even though it is a regulation of the medical profession, is ideological in intent and in kind,\u201d Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/Opinions\/Published\/141150.P.pdf\">wrote<\/a>, arguing that as such it violated abortionists\u2019 free speech rights under the First Amendment. He also claimed it goes beyond traditional informed-consent requirements because, \u201cRather than engaging in a conversation calculated to inform, the physician must continue talking regardless of whether the patient is listening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2015\/06\/15\/supreme-court-prevent-women-in-north-carolina-from-seeing-ultrasound-before-abortion\/\">contends<\/a> that the \u201ccourt was wrong to view these reasonable disclosures of fact as merely ideological.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfmedia.org\/News\/PRDetail\/86251?search=1\">issued a statement<\/a> after the Supreme Court\u2019s decision, noting: \u201cAbortionists should not be exempted from the standard that anyone performing risky surgery fully inform the patient of what the procedure is and what it does\u2026Contrary to the 4th Circuit\u2019s decision, there is nothing \u2018extreme\u2019 about a measure that only seeks to require abortionists to employ technology they are already using for abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilkinson did concede that the rest of the law\u2019s informed-consent requirements, including the risks of abortion and resources on abortion alternatives, were not at issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has opted not to review a North Carolina ultrasound law struck down by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, SCOTUSblog reports. 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