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Appeals Court Upholds Kentucky Law Requiring Doctors To Play Sound Of Baby’s Heartbeat Before Abortion

Hank Berrien

In a tremendous victory for the pro-life movement and unborn children, on Thursday judges in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Kentucky law that requires doctors to play the sound of the fetal heartbeat and show and describe the ultrasound of the unborn child for the prospective mother before she undergoes an abortion. The Court ruled that Kentucky’s “Ultrasound Informed Consent Act” doesn’t violate the Constitution by compelling doctors to play the sound of the heartbeat and the ultrasound before their patients.

The ruling came in a split decision; Judge John Bush, writing for the majority, stated of the bill, H.B. 2:

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