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Judge Blocks North Carolina Anti-Choice Law Forcing Doctors To Describe Fetus To Patient Before An Abortion | This summer, state lawmakers overrode North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue’s (D) veto to enact an anti-choice law that forces doctors to give a woman an ultrasound before the abortion procedure and “to describe her fetus in detail, including the size of its organs and limbs, whether she wants to hear it or not.” Today, federal Judge Catherine Eagles temporarily blocked the law based on the law’s violation of a doctor’s First Amendment free speech rights, noting that the message “is required even when the provider does not want to deliver the message and even when the patients affirmatively do not wish to see it or hear it.” Eagles conclusion conveyed that “allowing the law to go into effect would inflict irreparable harm on health care providers.”