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“The Supreme Court Lets Kentucky’s Anti-Abortion Transvaginal Ultrasound Law Stand”
Slate, 12/9/19
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“Today is a dark day.”
That was Planned Parenthood’s verdict yesterday after the Supreme Court delivered a major blow to health care and reproductive rights.
At issue: an extreme anti-choice law in Kentucky, requiring doctors to perform and describe ultrasounds on anyone seeking an abortion—even if the patient objects.
The Court decided to allow the law to stand.
The Kentucky decision represents a blatant infringement on the doctor-patient relationship—and another dangerous step toward repealing
Roe v. Wade. With two Trump appointees, the Court is scheduled to hear another anti-choice case early next year.
It has never been more crucial to strengthen the pro-choice movement and elect pro-choice candidates.
That’s why I’m asking you to split an urgent donation right now between Planned Parenthood Action Fund and our campaign. The future of reproductive health care in America depends on it.
CHIP IN
Make no mistake:
Kentucky’s law and others like it are meant to intimidate and humiliate patients in need of abortion care. As a dissent in the appellate court put it, Kentucky “co-opted physicians’ examining tables, their probing instruments and their voices in order to espouse a political message, without regard to the health of the patient or the judgment of the physician.”
That’s outrageous. Politicians have no right to force patients to undergo unnecessary, painful, and invasive procedures.
As Colorado’s next senator, I will oppose judges who refuse to uphold the right to choose. But we can’t wait—we need to defend the pro-choice movement right now.
So please,
friend, rush a donation to Planned Parenthood Action Fund and to our campaign. Let’s put a stop to anti-choice extremism.
CHIP IN
Thank you.
Andrew Romanoff
