If the religious right had its way, all abortions would be declared unlawful, and those who performed them and those who had them would be subject to prosecution for murder, and there would be no statute of limitations.
Rhonda
no.
but there is a law that you cannot be tried for something that you did and it wasn't made into a law later.
is it expostfacto?
Something like that. That only goes for western contries, though. There surely are some gangster countries where you can get prosecuted after the law was changed.
You actually don't need seat belts in cars in Sweden, if the cars were made before the seat belt law
and seat belts weren't standard in that car at that time. Alas, that doesn't go for guns, if they aren't muzzle loaders from before 1890.