Paragraph 8 of 11 Sentence 1 of 5 One kind of obnoxiously-phrased claim in this sentence: “Resort to this argument is a testament to the lack of any real historical support for the right that Roe and Casey recognized.” This strikes me as op-ed language, not SCOTUS language. Somebody was being cute. Anyway, here are […]
Paragraph 7 of 11 Sentence 2 of 2 This sentence makes it easier to do the work of the last sentence*. I’ll have to remember that when I come back through. I guess that’s a hazard of working a sentence at a time. “According to this account, which is based almost entirely on statements made […]
Paragraph 7 of 11 Sentence 1 of 2 This is another sentence with two variations of one claim: “Another amicus brief relied upon by respondents (see Brief for Respondents 21) tries to dismiss the significance of the state criminal statutes that were in effect when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted by suggesting that they were […]
Paragraph 6 of 11 Sentence 4 of 4 This sentence has two claims that need some discussion: “That is not surprising since common-law authorities had repeatedly condemned abortion and described it as an ‘unlawful’ act without regard to whether it occurred before or after quickening. See supra, at 16–21.” The claims: The phrase that separates […]
Paragraph 6 of 11 Sentence 3 of 4 This sentence contains two claims that are closely related but different in an important way: “When legislatures began to exercise that authority as the century wore on, no one, as far as we are aware, argued that the laws they enacted violated a fundamental right.” The claims: […]
Paragraph 6 of 11 Sentence 2 of 4 This sentence contains three claims: “But the insistence on quickening was not universal, see Mills v. Commonwealth, 13 Pa., at 633; State v. Slagle, 83 N.C. 630, 632 (1880), and regardless, the fact that many States in the late 18th and early 19th century did not criminalize […]
Paragraph 6 of 11 Sentence 1 of 4 I see three claims in the next sentence: “The Solicitor General next suggests that history supports an abortion right because the common law’s failure to criminalize abortion before quickening means that ‘at the Founding and for decades thereafter, women generally could terminate a pregnancy, at least in […]
Paragraph 5 of 11 Sentence 4 of 4 The single claim in this sentence could not be simpler: “Continued reliance on such scholarship is unsupportable.” Since I haven’t come to a conclusion about the scholarship in question, I definitely can’t make a determination about this claim yet. So . . . undetermined again:
Paragraph 5 of 11 Sentence 3 of 4 The next sentence contains one claim: “An internal memorandum characterized this author’s work as donning ‘the guise of impartial scholarship while advancing the proper ideological goals.’39” This is the revelation from the last sentence, I guess. End note 39 should point us to the appropriate materials. End […]
Paragraph 5 of 11 Sentence 2 of 4 Two more claims in the next sentence: “These articles have been discredited,38 and it has come to light that even members of Jane Roe’s legal team did not regard them as serious scholarship.” The claims: I have no doubt that the articles have been disputed, and end […]
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