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

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The first sentence of the second paragraph in II B 1 starts with a callback to the previous paragraph and then makes a new assertion:

“Not only was there no support for such a constitutional right until shortly before Roe, but abortion had long been a crime in every single State.”

Two claims here, with the first being a repeat:

• there [was] no support for such a constitutional right until shortly before Roe,
• abortion had long been a crime in every single State.

As it was in the last sentence, this first claim is undetermined:

“[T]here [was] no support for such a constitutional right until shortly before Roe.”

I’m sure plenty of people have weighed in on this, and if there are earlier instances of support for a right to abortion someone has likely pointed them out. I haven’t seen them yet, though, so we’ll just leave it undetermined for now.

The second claim also requires some research:

“[A]bortion had long been a crime in every single State.”

There’s an appendix attached to this decision that lists the legislation passed by states and territories, and it won’t be too big a challenge to look through that and verify (or contradict) this claim, but for now both of them are undetermined.

• there [was] no support for such a constitutional right until shortly before Roe,
• abortion had long been a crime in every single State.