ACLU challeges new N.C. abortion law in court

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/09/aclu-challeges-new-nc-abortion-law-in-court.html

The American Civil Liberties Union and four other groups sued to challenge a new North Carolina law requiring abortion providers to display and describe ultrasound images of a fetus.

The suit, filed in federal court Thursday, alleges that the statute violates the constitutional rights of women and healthcare providers and intrudes on women’s private lives.

"Politicians have no business forcing healthcare providers to push a political agenda on their patients," Bebe Anderson, senior counsel for the Center for Reproductive Rights, which joined in the suit, said in a statement.

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Along with the ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights, the plaintiffs are Planned Parenthood Health Systems and Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina.

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1. This is all about shaming the woman.

It has nothing to do with anything medical.