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

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This sentence is a single claim couched in a rhetorical question:

“Are we to believe that the hundreds of lawmakers whose votes were needed to enact these laws were motivated by hostility to Catholics and women?”

The claim:

• “[T]he hundreds of lawmakers whose votes were needed to enact these laws were [not] motivated by hostility to Catholics and women.”

It is, of course, unlikely-bordering-on-impossible that one group of hundreds of people could uniformly share a single perspective about anything as complex as a law governing abortion, but as a technical matter this claim is neither verifiable nor falsifiable, and isn’t much use in an argument.

This will remain undetermined . . . maybe permanently:

• “[T]he hundreds of lawmakers whose votes were needed to enact these laws were [not] motivated by hostility to Catholics and women.”