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Dobbs Sentences #7: Part II A 1

Paragraph 3 of 5 Sentence 2 of 6 This sentence is a single claim, and it’s easy to check since it’s a direct quote from Roe and includes a citation: One possibility was that the right was “founded . . . in the Ninth Amendment’s reservation of rights to the people.” Id., at 153. And […]

Dobbs Sentences #5: Part II A 1

Paragraph 2 of 5 Sentence 3 of 3 To finish out this paragraph we have a third sentence that sticks pretty closely to the previous one. “And that privacy right, Roe observed, had been found to spring from no fewer than five different constitutional provisions—the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments.” Id., at 152. […]

Dobbs Sentences #2: Part II A 1

Paragraph 1 of 5 Sentence 2 of 2 The Constitution makes no express reference to a right to obtain an abortion, and therefore those who claim that it protects such a right must show that the right is somehow implicit in the constitutional text. This is simpler as it doesn’t refer to any sources for […]