A state judge in North Dakota has put a halt to the “trigger law” abortion ban that was set to come into effect on July 28, allowing the only remaining abortion clinic in the state to continue facilitating the procedure.
In 2007, the North Dakota Legislative Assembly passed a trigger law that was written to come into effect if the U.S. Supreme Court were to overturn Roe v. Wade and restore, in whole or in part, the states’ authority to prohibit abortion.
The trigger law—which bans abortion except in the case of incest, rape, or the health of the mother—was supposed to take effect on the 30th day after the state attorney general certified that the official judgment had been issued by the Supreme Court….