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That new test was the undue burden test. An undue burden is a law whose purpose or effect is to create a substantial obstacle for a woman wanting an abortion prior to viability. Michael Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, says determining the standard of undue burden is pretty clear.
Some areas of United States constitutional jurisprudence use tests described using terms like undue burden, though the tests themselves exist in distinct areas of the law. The two most notable areas to use such tests are the areas of the Dormant Commerce Clause (e.g. United States v. Lopez) and abortion (e.g. Planned Parenthood v. Casey).