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

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Another sentence with a single claim:

“In this country during the 19th century, the vast majority of the States enacted statutes criminalizing abortion at all stages of pregnancy. See Appendix A, infra (listing state statutory provisions in chronological order).33”

The claim:

• “In this country during the 19th century, the vast majority of the States enacted statutes criminalizing abortion at all stages of pregnancy.”

If you’re interested, you should check out Appendix A. It’s massive. It starts on page 70 of the decision (on page 87 of the PDF in the link above) and runs for more than twenty pages. There’s too much there to account for in this quick pass, and then there’s also end note 33:

See generally Dellapenna 315–319 (cataloging the development of the law in the States); E. Quay, Justifiable Abortion—Medical and Legal Foundations, 49 Geo. L. J. 395, 435–437, 447–520 (1961) (Quay) (same); J. Witherspoon, Reexamining Roe: Nineteenth-Century Abortion Statutes and The Fourteenth Amendment, 17 St. Mary’s L.J. 29, 34–36 (1985) (Witherspoon) (same).

So because of that I’m leaving this undetermined:

• “In this country during the 19th century, the vast majority of the States enacted statutes criminalizing abortion at all stages of pregnancy.”