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

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This sentence is a single claim:

“None of the other decisions cited by Roe and Casey involved the critical moral question posed by abortion.”

As we established in the last sentence, this is true. The other decisions do not involve the destruction of the fetus/unborn child/MacGuffin. Some of the language in this sentence raises questions, though. The criticality of this “critical moral question” is entirely dependent upon the status of the MacGuffin. In order for the states’ interest in protecting the McG to override the interests of the pregnant person, the McG has to be established in a way that it has not yet.

So far the states’ interest is dependent on the belief of some people that the fetus is a human person from the moment of conception. The Dobbs Court has itself pointed out that mere belief doesn’t justify action (such as enacting a law restricting the medical choices of others). Unless the Court can establish that what those people believe is supportable by evidence, there doesn’t seem to be much weight to counter the interests of the pregnant person—in which the state also (and obviously) has an interest.

That aside, the claim is true:

• “None of the other decisions cited by Roe and Casey involved the critical moral question posed by abortion.”