HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS EDITORIAL: Advocates for abortion rights scored a victory this week as the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court’s ruling striking down a major abortion regulation from Oklahoma. The state was trying to require women seeking the procedure to undergo an ultrasound and hear about the fetus’ size and possible heartbeat.
If the law sounds familiar, that’s because it’s similar to legislation introduced in Pennsylvania in 2012. That bill prompted Gov. Tom Corbett to advise pregnant women making the heart-wrenching decision to terminate their pregnancies that “you just have to close your eyes” if they did not wish to view an ultrasound image of the fetus.
The high court’s action came a week after it dismissed Oklahoma’s request to reinstate another law that would have prohibited doctors from prescribing women a combination of two drugs that are used to induce abortion in the early weeks of pregnancy… (more)
