Abortion rights groups welcomed the court's decision.
"Pure and simple, these tactics are an affront to our nation's Constitution and a bald-faced attempt to foreclose women's access to a full range of reproductive healthcare," Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement.
Keith Mason, the president of Personhood USA, said the group and its local affiliates would go on trying in Oklahoma and other states to pass such a law through the legislature or the ballot box.
Similar initiatives were successful in placing personhood questions on the ballot in Colorado and Mississippi, but voters in both states defeated the amendments.
The case is Personhood Oklahoma v. Barber et al, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 12-145.
(Reporting by Terry Baynes in New York; Editing by Howard Goller and Cynthia Osterman)
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