Tag Archives: Planned Parenthood v Casey
Dobbs Sentences #157: Part II C 2
Paragraph 2 of 4 Sentence 1 of 2 This sentence contains two claims: “Defenders of Roe and Casey do not claim that any new scientific learning calls for a different answer to the underlying moral question, but they do contend that changes in society require the recognition of a constitutional right to obtain an abortion.” […]
Dobbs Sentences #154: Part II C 2
Paragraph 1 of 4 Sentence 1 of 3 This sentence contains at least four claims: “In drawing this critical distinction between the abortion right and other rights, it is not necessary to dispute Casey’s claim (which we accept for the sake of argument) that ‘the specific practices of States at the time of the adoption […]
Dobbs Sentences #150: Part II C 1
Paragraph 6 of 6 Sentence 1 of 4 This sentence is packed with significance—and three claims: “What sharply distinguishes the abortion right from the rights recognized in the cases on which Roe and Casey rely is something that both those decisions acknowledged: Abortion destroys what those decisions call ‘potential life’ and what the law at […]
Dobbs Sentences #147: Part II C 1
Paragraph 6 of 6 Sentence 1 of 3 The last paragraph of this section starts with a sentence consisting of a single claim: “These attempts to justify abortion through appeals to a broader right to autonomy and to define one’s ‘concept of existence’ prove too much. Casey, 505 U.S., at 851.” And I guess we’ll […]
Dobbs Sentences #145: Part II C 1
Paragraph 5 of 6 Sentence 2 of 3 The second sentence in this paragraph is a cornucopia of citations: “Casey relied on cases involving the right to marry a person of a different race, Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967); the right to marry while in prison, Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78 (1987); […]
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 #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 […]
Dobbs Sentences #134: Part II C 1
Paragraph 2 of 6 Sentence 3 of 3 This sentence is one simple claim: “Casey elaborated: ‘At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.’ Ibid.” For the list: And here is the passage in Casey, which […]
Dobbs Sentences #133: Part II C 1
Paragraph 2 of 6 Sentence 2 of 3 The second sentence in this section makes two claims based on the previous sentence: “Roe termed this a right to privacy, 410 U.S., at 154, and Casey described it as the freedom to make ‘intimate and personal choices’ that are ‘central to personal dignity and autonomy,’ 505 […]
Dobbs Sentences #132: Part II C 1 (The Return)
Paragraph 1 of 6 Sentence 2 of 2 The first sentence of Part II C 1 contains two claims: “Instead of seriously pressing the argument that the abortion right itself has deep roots, supporters of Roe and Casey contend that the abortion right is an integral part of a broader entrenched right.” Here are the […]
Cynical Jason 