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

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This might be the shortest sentence I’ve examined so far. It’s just one claim:

“They are therefore inapposite.”

The “they” in this sentence refers to “the other decisions cited by Roe and Casey” noted in the previous sentence. “Inapposite” is a fun word., so let’s take a moment to consider it.

Here’s how Merriam Webster defines it:

Sometimes words have different meanings in certain circumstances. Let’s see what “inapposite” means in a legal sense. Here’s the entry in something called World Law Dictionary (and if you can’t trust the World Law Dictionary, who can you trust?):

Nope. Same thing.

So the Dobbs Court claims that the decisions Roe and Casey deploy to support a right to abortion are not relevant support because of the states’ interest in protecting the fetus/unborn child/MacGuffin, which is based on some people’s belief that the McG is a human person with rights from the moment of conception.

I have to leave this one undetermined. There’s just too much to consider.

• “They are therefore inapposite.”