Current shield laws don’t go far enough, organizers say.
the right to abortion access, and enacting what the Center of Reproductive Rights calls “shield laws.”
“There is lots of support for abortion in New York City, for example, but New York City is not the entire state of New York, right?” Smith says. “In almost every state, you can find pockets of the state that, politically, are really different from the majority of the state.
There are several problems with shield laws right now, according to Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic. “We talked at length in our article about Immigration and Customs Enforcement and sanctuary laws,” she says, referring toCaraballo continues, “Essentially, if states are just saying ‘you may not [help investigate someone for an abortion],’ but there's literally no enforcement mechanism, law enforcement officers are just going to do it anyway.
As shield laws continue to evolve, state legislatures may return to the topic and update their laws with new practices. As shield laws continue to evolve, state legislatures may return to the topic and update their laws with new practices.shield law
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