Amongst the side effects of triptans, a substantial percentage of patients experience injection site pain and tenderness, the underlying mechanism of which is unknown.
If this legislation doesn't have the purpose of the effect of putting a substantial obstacle in front of women, what does?
In a recently published systematic review looking at the effect of INCSs, a substantial positive effect on patients' symptoms was found.
In dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas said the majority's approach "has the effect of treating a substantial number of state felonies as federal misdemeanors, even when they would result in federal felony convictions".
Interpreting the statute as prosecutors and police wished "would have the effect of rendering a substantial amount of otherwise lawful conduct illegal in Illinois," the court wrote.
As we held in Casey, an abortion regulation constitutes an undue burden if it "has the purpose or effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus".
An "undue burden is shorthand for the conclusion that a state regulation has the purpose or effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus".
In its opinion, which Justice Kennedy joined, the court said it would permit restrictions that did not impose an "undue burden," defined in the opinion as "a state regulation that has the purpose or effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus".
An undue burden, the Court said, exists when "a state regulation has the purpose or effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion".
