How to Use trigger law in a Sentence

trigger law

noun

• The trigger law was passed in 2019 and took effect when Roe v. Wade was overturned.
  — Bruce Schreiner, The Courier-Journal, 22 June 2023
• Then being in Texas, knowing the trigger laws that had been passed in the lead-up to that decision.
  — Rachel Epstein, Men's Health, 23 June 2023
• Seven of the 10 states have trigger laws in place that went into effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
  — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 11 Jan. 2024
• After the high court’s ruling, a trigger law in Texas banned all abortions other than those intended to protect the life of the mother.
  — Andy Rose, CNN, 5 Aug. 2023
• The trigger law implemented a ban on abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy as soon as Roe was struck down.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
• The trigger law, adopted in 2019, went into effect one month after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
  — Sonel Cutler, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
• More on trigger laws:Abortion 'trigger' bans to take effect in multiple states this week.
  — Kate Perez, USA TODAY, 24 June 2023
• Those trigger laws, unenforceable at the time they were passed, became a stark reality for millions of people of childbearing age when Roe was overturned.
  — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 27 Nov. 2023
• The clinic was at the center of the case that overturned Roe, and a restrictive trigger law went into effect 10 days after the attorney general certified the court’s decision.
  — Sonel Cutler, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
• States activated trigger laws banning the procedure that were drafted years or decades earlier, designed for the eventual fall of Roe.
  — Sonel Cutler, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
• In the wake of the decision, 15 largely conservative states imposed near-total bans (through trigger laws or new legislation), and two more set limits at six weeks of pregnancy.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• The state had several trigger laws that went into effect immediately after Roe was overturned.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 June 2023
• Additionally, a trigger law went into effect in Texas in August 2022 following the Dobbs decision.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 July 2023
• Texas’s trigger law, which passed following Dobbs, opened up medical providers who perform abortions to criminal prosecution and allowed for civil lawsuits.
  — Nicole Russell, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• Within hours, states such as Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas began enacting trigger laws that banned abortions.
  — Amanda Seitz, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024