Tag Archives: Quickening
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 […]
Dobbs Sentences #55: Part II B 2 a
Paragraph 1 of 8 Sentence 1 of 1 This next section starts to lay out the legal history of abortion in more specific terms—beginning hundreds of years before the founding of the United States: “We begin with the common law, under which abortion was a crime at least after “quickening”—i.e., the first felt movement of […]
Cynical Jason 