Tag Archives: Claims
Dobbs Sentences #144: Part II C 1
Paragraph 5 of 6 Sentence 1 of 3 This paragraph opens with a single claim: “Nor does the right to obtain an abortion have a sound basis in precedent.” It will be interesting to see how the Court supports this claim. Until then, this is undetermined:
Dobbs Sentences #143: Part II C 1
Paragraph 4 of 6 Sentence 6 of 6 This paragraph concludes with a bold claim: “Our Nation’s historical understanding of ordered liberty does not prevent the people’s elected representatives from deciding how abortion should be regulated.” This requires support, and I don’t recall seeing any. This is undetermined:
Dobbs Sentences #142: Part II C 1
Paragraph 4 of 6 Sentence 5 of 6 This sentence is essentially the same claim with opposite specifics: “Voters in other States may wish to impose tight restrictions based on their belief that abortion destroys an ‘unborn human being.’ Miss. Code Ann. §41–41–191(4)(b).” One interesting element of this sentence, this claim, is that it references […]
Dobbs Sentences #141: Part II C 1
Paragraph 4 of 6 Sentence 4 of 6 This sentence is another simple claim: “In some States, voters may believe that the abortion right should be even more extensive than the right that Roe and Casey recognized.” Again, this claim is undoubtedly true, but my questions from the previous sentence remain: people will have different […]
Dobbs Sentences #140: Part II C 1
Paragraph 4 of 6 Sentence 3 of 6 The next sentence consists of a single uncontroversial claim: “But the people of the various States may evaluate those interests differently.” This is true. Without a doubt. It’s also true that the people of the various counties within a state “may evaluate those interests differently.” It’s also […]
Dobbs Sentences #139: Part II C 1
The next sentence is a single claim: “Roe and Casey each struck a particular balance between the interests of a woman who wants an abortion and the interests of what they termed ‘potential life.’ Roe, 410 U.S., at 150 (emphasis deleted); Casey, 505 U.S., at 852.” Let’s see what the citations show us. Here’s Roe […]
Dobbs Sentences #138: Part II C 1
Paragraph 4 of 6 Sentence 1 of 6 The next paragraph starts with a definition: “Ordered liberty sets limits and defines the boundary between competing interests.” This is the Dobbs Court’s definition of “ordered liberty,” and they don’t cite support, so either it’s the (a?) generally accepted definition or it’s a controversial description that will […]
Dobbs Sentences #137: Part II C 1
Paragraph 3 of 6 Sentence 3 of 3 The paragraph ends with two claims: “License to act on the basis of such beliefs may correspond to one of the many understandings of ‘liberty,’ but it is certainly not ‘ordered liberty’.” The claims: The first claim is true in the sense that it’s just a basic […]
Dobbs Sentences #136: Part II C 1
Paragraph 3 of 6 Sentence 2 of 3 This seems like a less significant sentence, but it contains two consequential claims: “While individuals are certainly free to think and to say what they wish about ‘existence,’ ‘meaning,’ the ‘universe,’ and ‘the mystery of human life,’ they are not always free to act in accordance with […]
Dobbs Sentences #135: Part II C 1
Paragraph 3 of 6 Sentence 1 of 3 The next paragraph starts with a sentence containing two claims: “The Court did not claim that this broadly framed right is absolute, and no such claim would be plausible.” The claims: As for the first claim: not only did the Roe and Casey Courts not claim that […]
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