A Kentucky abortion law intrudes deeply into the patient-doctor relationship, but the Supreme Court is unconcerned.
, which requires women to submit to a narrated ultrasound before receiving an abortion.
The Kentucky statute compels any doctor performing an abortion to first do an ultrasound on the patient and describe aloud the physical features of the fetus on the screen. The doctor must also play the sound of the fetal heartbeat. To offer information that may assist patients in making medical decisions in alignment with their values, beliefs, and interests is the essence of the ethical practice of medicine. To force information on unwilling patients is precisely the opposite.
It is impossible to overstate how disrespectful forcing this information on patients is. The mandated speech occurs while the woman is in an extremely vulnerable position: half-naked, lying prone on an examination table with her legs in stirrups and a probe on her abdomen or inside her vagina. It is not only disrespectful but also in many cases is likely to be distressing, if not harmful.
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