You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who at one point

said on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 306 is something like how should judges interpret the language

of law?

Or more specifically, does the United States Constitution guarantee the right to abortion?

When we read the 2021 court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the

summary of the ruling by Samuel Alito and the entire dissent by Briar Sotomayor and

Kagan, plus Ronald Dworkin's 1992 article, Uninuminated Rights, Weather and How Roe Should

Be Overruled.

For more information and links to the text, please see partiallyexaminedlife.com.

This is Mark Linton-Meyer, staring decisively in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin, whose opinion is only what I had for breakfast in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Haul and a man of both horizontal and vertical integrity in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey, just looking for judicial integrity in Newfound Michigan.

This is Robin Linton-Meyer.

I am Mark's sister and I am in Mountain View, California and I am here conducting an intervention

because Mark is a Dworkaholic.

And I'm really sorry that those words came out of my mouth just now.

I was giving her an example of the kind of things she could say.

I didn't intend her to actually use that.

It fits perfectly with the Mark's vibe.

I think I'm if anyone's the Dworkaholic here, it's me.

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