A federal judge who once claimed the First Amendment didn’t protect then-candidate Donald Trump’s demand to evict protesters from a campaign rally now has decided the same First Amendment gives doctors the right to prevent pregnant women considering an abortion from seeing their unborn child on an ultrasound.
But the governor in the state where Judge David Jason Hale issued that second ruling, Kentucky, says the fight is just beginning over the tool that pro-life activists believe is one of the most effective at preventing abortions.
A spokeswoman for Republican Gov. Matt Bevin told the Washington Times that Kentucky’s chief executive will pursue an appeal of Hale’s decision to strike down the state law requiring doctors to conduct an ultrasound and allow mothers to hear the heartbeat of their unborn child before an abortion can be performed....