What is an “undue burden”? That question has been at the heart of legal fights over abortion restrictions since 1992, when the U.S. Supreme Court laid out these words as the standard for evaluating the constitutionality of abortion regulations in Planned Parent­hood v. Casey.

In Casey, the court made clear that regulation of abortion to protect women’s health must not impose an undue burden on their constitutional right to have an abortion.

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