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

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The next sentence contains three claims:

“Recall that at the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, over three-quarters of the States had adopted statutes criminalizing abortion (usually at all stages of pregnancy), and that from the early 20th century until the day Roe was handed down, every single State had such a law on its books.”

And here they are:

• “[A]t the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, over three-quarters of the States had adopted statutes criminalizing abortion.”
• “[U]sually” the “statutes criminalizing abortion” enacted by “the States” did so “at all stages of pregnancy.”*
• “[F]rom the early 20th century until the day Roe was handed down, every single State had such a law on its books.”

All of this deserves real analysis, so all three claims are undetermined.

*Sorry for this patchwork sentence. It’s my way of reminding myself that I’ve taken all of those words directly from the source, so it will need some work to render it a viable paraphrase.