What is a burden?

What is an “undue burden?”

What limits can religious and anti-abortion state lawmakers creatively put in the way of Abortion Justice that are not TOO big a deal, but just enough to make it super hard to access, expensive, and difficult to understand?

Well, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey opened the floodgates to this kind of thing when, on June 29th, 1992 they decided that as long as it wasn’t “too big” of a block, it was ok to block off abortion access in other, smaller ways.

Today we remember that this decision has allowed for the chipping away at the freedom to have an abortion. That Abortion Justice cannot happen as long as PP v. Casey is a precedent. That people with nefarious intent will always argue that waiting periods, long trips to the nearest clinic, mandatory invasive ultrasounds, and other barriers are just fine because they don’t actually GET RID of abortion and that these things are to “keep people safe” and whatever.

Extremists are going to do anything they can, no matter how underhanded, to take away the right to an abortion. Remember that today and donate to an abortion fund or a clinic escort group near you.