This report by the Center for Reproductive Rights analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June Medical Services v. Russo, a leading abortion case brought and won by the Center and decided in June 2020. The ruling, which invalidated a Louisiana abortion restriction that would have shuttered most of the state’s remaining clinics, preserved the Court’s landmark opinion from four years earlier when it struck down an identical Texas law.

“The Undue Burden Standard After June Medical Services v. Russo” examines the ruling’s impact on the legal standard that has been used by courts for decades to determine the constitutionality of abortion laws.