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Dobbs Sentences #62: Part II B 2 a
Paragraph 4 of 8 Sentence 2 of 3 The next sentence is a single claim, and one we’ve already confirmed: “Quite to the contrary, in the 1732 case mentioned above, the judge said of the charge of abortion (with no mention of quickening) that he had ‘never met with a case so barbarous and unnatural.’28” […]
Dobbs Sentences #61: Part II B 2 a
Paragraph 4 of 8 Sentence 1 of 3 The next sentence seems to be making a purely logical point, but also cites another case as backup: “Although a pre-quickening abortion was not itself considered homicide, it does not follow that abortion was permissible at common law—much less that abortion was a legal right. Cf. Glucksberg, […]
Dobbs Sentences #60: Part II B 2 a
Paragraph 3 of 8 Sentence 3 of 3 This paragraph closes with a sentence that contains another simple claim: “For that crime and another ‘misdemeanor,’ Beare was sentenced to two days in the pillory and three years’ imprisonment.27” That other “misdemeanor” of which Mrs. Beare was convicted was that she advised a man to kill […]
Dobbs Sentences #59: Part II B 2 a
Paragraph 3 of 8 Sentence 2 of 3 Finally! The next sentence is a single, simple claim that is easily investigated. It reads: “In 1732, for example, Eleanor Beare was convicted of ‘destroying the Foetus in the Womb’ of another woman and ‘thereby causing her to miscarry.’”26 The Court has made our investigation easy in […]
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 […]
Dobbs Sentences #39: Part II A 2
Paragraph 8 of 9 Sentence 4 of 4 The last sentence of this paragraph is basically a single claim, but there is a second suggestion that is a sort of claim: “As the Court cautioned in Glucksberg, ‘[w]e must . . . exercise the utmost care whenever we are asked to break new ground in […]
Dobbs Sentences #37: Part II A 2
Paragraph 8 of 9 Sentence 2 of 4 On the surface the next sentence seems innocuous, but there’s a sly maneuver happening in this single claim: “That is why the Court has long been ‘reluctant’ to recognize rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution. Collins v. Harker Heights, 503 U. S. 115, 125 (1992).” […]
Dobbs Sentences #36: Part II A 2
Paragraph 8 of 9 Sentence 1 of 4 The next sentence is a single simple claim that makes an important distinction: “In interpreting what is meant by the Fourteenth Amendment’s reference to ‘liberty,’ we must guard against the natural human tendency to confuse what that Amendment protects with our own ardent views about the liberty […]
Dobbs Sentences #35: Part II A 2
Paragraph 7 of 9 Sentence 4 of 4 The next sentence is a single claim: “In a well-known essay, Isaiah Berlin reported that ‘[h]istorians of ideas’ had cataloged more than 200 different senses in which the term had been used.” The essay in question is “Two Concepts of Liberty.” The Court has cited the book […]
Dobbs Sentences #34: Part II A 2
Paragraph 7 of 9 Sentence 3 of 4 The third sentence in this paragraph might look like one claim at first glance, but really it’s two. Neither is really interesting: “As Lincoln once said: ‘We all declare for Liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.’” Here are […]
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