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As always, you can find the Dobbs v. Jackson decision here.

There isn’t a good way to mark the next sentence as true or false, and there may never be. It is an assertion. It is a claim. It’s just not exactly verifiable or falsifiable. Here it is:

“Roe, however, was remarkably loose in its treatment of the constitutional text.”

It’s the opening sentence of the paragraph, not the statement that establishes any kind of fact, so there’s no real reason to hold it to a particular truth value, but it does make me think. Is there a scale of treatment in which “looseness” is measurable? Is “remarkably loose” higher or lower on the scale than “ludicrously loose”? How high up the scale of looseness does treatment of the constitutional text have to rise to go plaid?

Let’s just chalk this up to the emotions of Justice Samuel Alito.

This claim is undetermined:

“Roe, however, was remarkably loose in its treatment of the constitutional text.”