Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is defending her pivotal vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, arguing in a new memoir that the 1973 ruling imposed abortion rights on the nation and “came at a cost,” CNN reported.
Barrett, President Donald Trump’s third appointee to the high court, offers her most detailed defense yet of the decision that ended a half-century of nationwide abortion rights. In “Listening to the Law,” set for release Sept. 9, Barrett says Roe v. Wade usurped the will of the people and distorted the political process.
“The Court’s role is to respect the choices that the people have agreed upon, not to tell them what they should agree to,” she writes in the book, which CNN obtained.
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