As always, you can find the Dobbs v. Jackson decision here.

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One claim in this sentence:

“One scholar has suggested that Parliament’s decision ‘may partly have been attributable to the medical man’s concern that fetal life should be protected by the law at all stages of gestation.’ Keown 22.”

I still don’t have access to Dr. John Keown’s book (I assume he is the scholar in question), so this will have to remain undetermined:

• “One scholar has suggested that Parliament’s decision ‘may partly have been attributable to the medical man’s concern that fetal life should be protected by the law at all stages of gestation.’”

With that, I need to acknowledge a couple of questions I have for when I do check into this:

1. What is with the flaccid, craven language? “[M]ay partly have been”? Yeesh.
2. Who is “the medical man”? Does Keown have someone in particular in mind, or is this how he represents the medical profession as a whole?