ACLU files lawsuit to block abortion bill

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit aimed at blocking a new Kentucky abortion law that would require doctors providing abortions to first perform an ultrasound of the fetus and try to show and describe the image to the patient — even if she objects.

The measure, House Bill 2, was approved Saturday by the Kentucky General Assembly with an emergency clause that allowed Gov. Matt Bevin to sign it into law immediately.

The law "violates longstanding constitutional principles, including the right to privacy, the right to bodily integrity and First Amendment Freedoms," said William Sharp, legal director of the ACLU of Kentucky.

But Bevin, in an interview Monday with WHAS radio host Terry Meiners, dismissed the legal challenge.

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