The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a Kentucky law requiring doctors to provide details of an ultrasound to women seeking abortions.

The court's rejection of the case leaves in place a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the law against a First Amendment challenge that claimed the measure limited doctors' freedom of speech.

Kentucky's Ultrasound Informed Consent Act requires that medical providers describe and display ultrasound images and play the fetal heartbeat out loud to women who want an abortion.

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The court's decision to not hear the case means that four justices did not sign on. There were no dissents from the denial.

Following the decision, Planned Parenthood said the court "allowed an unnecessary, harmful Kentucky abortion restriction to take effect."

"This blow to abortion access comes months before the court prepared to hear its next big abortion case in March," the organization tweeted .

Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom Project, said in a press release that the "Supreme Court has rubber-stamped extreme political interference in the doctor-patient relationship."

The anti-abortion group Students for Life praised the court's decision.