Abortion Returns to Supreme Court as Clinics Claim Speech Rights

  • Anti-abortion clinics challenge California disclosure law
  • Clinics must tell patients of eligibility for free abortions

The U.S. Supreme Court building stands in Washington.

Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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For years, abortion-rights advocates have used the First Amendment as a weapon to challenge laws that require doctors to display an ultrasound or describe a fetus in detail to a patient.

Now it’s the anti-abortion side that says its speech rights are being violated.