If Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court, four “Trigger States” have laws that would make abortion illegal: Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Ed Chervenak, director of the UNO Survey Research Center at the University of New Orleans, pointed out that overturning Roe would take time, stating, “There’s a lot of unknown. Courts are not self-starters. Cases and controversies have to be brought to them. If it gets up to that point where it moves through the Federal District Court system, then the court can decide we’ll hear that case.” Chervenak noted that there was no guarantee that if the Supreme Court heard a case that could overturn Roe, it would decide to overturn the abortion case. He said, “Courts don’t want to be willy-nilly overturning decisions because then they begin to lose the respect of the other branches of government and of the people so they’re very careful about precedent. So it could go either way to be honest.”
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