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Dobbs Sentences #111: Part II B 3
Paragraph 5 of 11 Sentence 1 of 4 The next paragraph opens with two claims: “Instead of following these authorities, Roe relied largely on two articles by a pro-abortion advocate who claimed that Coke had intentionally misstated the common law because of his strong anti-abortion views.37” And here are the two claims: I’m not even […]
Dobbs Sentences #109: Part II B 3
Paragraph 4 of 11 Sentence 3 of 4 There are a few tightly-bound claims in this sentence: “But as we have seen, great common-law authorities like Bracton, Coke, Hale, and Blackstone all wrote that a post-quickening abortion was a crime—and a serious one at that.” Here’s where we get into issues that annoy people who […]
Dobbs Sentences #56: Part II B 2 a
Paragraph 2 of 8 Sentence 1 of 2 The next paragraph starts out with a simple claim, but the citation goes in an odd direction: “The ’eminent common-law authorities (Blackstone, Coke, Hale, and the like),’ Kahler v. Kansas, 589 U.S. ___, ___ (2020) (slip op., at 7), all describe abortion after quickening as criminal.” The […]
Cynical Jason 