{"id":28579,"date":"2019-12-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/09\/supreme-court-upholds-kentucky-abortion-ultrasound-law\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:10:06","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-kentucky-abortion-ultrasound-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/09\/supreme-court-upholds-kentucky-abortion-ultrasound-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Upholds Kentucky Abortion Ultrasound Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Law had been challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union, will go into effect shortly<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, Dec. 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A Kentucky law requiring physicians to perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients before abortions was upheld Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The law was challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Kentucky&#8217;s only remaining abortion clinic, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The law was upheld by a federal appeals court in Cincinnati, but a court in Richmond, Virginia, struck down a similar measure in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Enforcement of the law had been on hold until the legal challenge was settled but will begin shortly, according to Steve Pitt, general counsel to Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/d36c289f1d5692fea014e5996f19de7a\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law had been challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union, will go into effect shortly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-28579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}