User:Swifty4life1989/Abortion law

Trigger laws
Article body - Trigger laws are two part statutes that only come into effect once a certain constitutional law changes. Trigger laws are usually created to show a disapproval of a Supreme Court decision and cannot be challenged until after they have been triggered. Trigger laws are not common in the legal world, but gained notoriety after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. There is much contention in the legal world regarding trigger laws[1] One such theory that many have said contradict the legitimacy of trigger laws is Rule of Law. Rule of Law is the popular legal theory that states that everyone is equal under the law and that nobody is above the law. Trigger laws have been said to contradict this because of their ineffectiveness in comparison to the average laws and misfirings of trigger laws.

The case that sent trigger laws into effect was Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. This case states that abortion never appears in the Constitution and therefore is not protected under the Constitution. It claims that the Court made a mistake and that their reasoning for leaving abortion up to the states was weak. The Constitution can be amended, however it is notoriously difficult to do and therefore has never been seriously pursued. This case overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, meaning that any preexisting trigger laws regarding abortion were fired. 

There has been some speculation that abortion trigger bans could threaten access to other forms of reproductive healthcare, including IVF, birth control, and Plan B. This is due to the fact that in these trigger laws, it states that life begins at conception. Since Plan B stops the implantation of a fertilized embryo, it could be considered an abortifacient. An abortifacient is any drug or substance that ends a pregnancy. The logistics surrounding implantation are unclear within the trigger laws, along with the fact that none of the trigger laws say whether or not the embryo has to be in the body or not for it to be considered an abortion. This could mean IVF is at risk, since it includes the destruction of unused embryos. In addition to this, birth controls prevents implantation. Again, since there is no specifics about implantation within any of the abortion trigger laws, this could mean birth control would be considered an abortifacient.