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Clinics in Louisiana who were challenging the mandatory ultrasound law recently passed in the state have agreed to drop the suit now that forcing women to accept printouts of their ultrasound is no longer being required.

Via CNBC:

A group of abortion clinics dropped its challenge of a Louisiana abortion law that requires ultrasound exams for all women getting abortions, after working out an agreement with the state health department.

The agreement was approved by a federal judge on Wednesday.

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The clinics had argued the ultrasound law was unconstitutionally vague because it didn’t specify whether providers must force women to view or accept copies of their ultrasound.

In the agreement filed in a Baton Rouge federal court, the state Department of Health and Hospitals agreed the law doesn’t require a woman to receive the photograph — but only requires the photograph to be offered.

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[Stephanie] Toti [an attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights] said the clinics aren’t challenging the general ultrasound requirement because they all provide ultrasounds on site as a standard practice.

“They think it’s bad public policy in general, but in this particular case for the time being it’s not requiring them to alter their practice in any way,” she said.