Amy Coney Barrett supported the decision that helped end Roe v. Wade in an interview with a journalist.
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During a televised interview with a CBS TV journalist, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett defended the case which overturned Roe V. Wade on Sunday.
Barrett, a faithful Catholic who reportedly practices her faith in the Charismatic Renewal movement, in an interview with CBS’ Norah O’Donnell, defended the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, according to Fox News.
O’Donnell queried Barrett about the disagreeing opinion penned by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and former Justice Stephen Breyer, in which they contended that the courts would be confronted with questions over the application of abortion guidelines to medical care. The dissenting justices made questions about the morning-after pill, IUDs as well as in vitro fertilization (IVF).
“Dobbs did not render abortion illegal. Dobbs did not say anything about whether abortion is immoral. Dobbs said that these are questions that are left to the states,” Barrett replied. “And all of these kinds of questions – decisions that you mention that require medical judgments – are not ones that our Constitution connects to the courts, you know, to decide how far into pregnancy the right of abortion might extend.”
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“You know, the court was in the business of drawing a lot of those lines before, and what Dobbs says is that those calls are properly left to the democratic process. And the states have been working those out,” Barrett continued. “There’s been a lot of legislative activity and a lot of state constitutional activity since the decision in Dobbs was rendered.”
Still, O’Donnell pressed on. She told Barrett that the Dobbs decision prompted reservations about other rights, saying that in effect, it terminated it as a constitutional right for women to have an abortion, letting the states decide to ban or limit it.
“So, when Hillary Clinton, for example, says what’s next, she said, ‘my prediction is the court will do to gay marriage what they did to abortion,’” O’Donnell said.
But Barrett replied, “I think people who criticize the court who are outside say a lot of different things, but again the point that I make in the book is that we have to tune those things out.”
Barrett succeeded Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. After the veteran judge passed away, President Donald Trump appointed Barrett in October 2020. Barrett is releasing a book called “Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution.”
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