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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 #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 […]
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 #130: Part II B 3
Paragraph 11 of 11 Sentence 1 of 2 The next sentence has three claims: “One may disagree with this belief (and our decision is not based on any view about when a State should regard prenatal life as having rights or legally cognizable interests), but even Roe and Casey did not question the good faith […]
Dobbs Sentences #124: Part II B 3
Paragraph 8 of 11 Sentence 4 and 5 of 5 I’m actually doing two sentences at a time here, because the Dobbs authors have broken what should be one sentence with an integrated quote into two separate sentences. Neither does anything on its own, though, so here they are together: “Even when an argument about […]
Cynical Jason 