Health regulations can function as indirect abortion restrictions.

Evidence

At issue in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (2016) were provisions of a Texas law that required all abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a hospital no more than 30 miles from where the physician practiced and that required all abortion clinics to be licensed as “ambulatory surgical centers,” along the lines of a field hospital. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3066

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Casey undue-burden test that the chapter earlier introduced.