00:00Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is defending her 2022 vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, this time in her own words.
00:10In her forthcoming memoir, Listening to the Law, Barrett argues abortion is different from other constitutional rights because it remained at the center of what she calls a complicated moral debate.
00:22She contrasts that with rights like marriage, contraception, and procreation, which she says have strong public support.
00:30Barrett echoes Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which called Roe an exercise of raw judicial power.
00:40She writes that the 1973 decision cut short compromise and deepened division.
00:45To underscore her point, she cites the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who once suggested Roe may have interrupted a reform process, though Ginsburg supported the outcome.
00:56Barrett also rejects the dissent from the court's three liberals, who warned that Dobbs stripped away women's rights from the moment of fertilization.
01:05A Pew survey this summer found 63 percent of Americans say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, while 36 percent say it should be illegal, evidence of the deep divide.
01:17In her book, Barrett also pushes back on criticism of her Catholic faith, writing that all judges, religious or not, may wrestle with tensions between personal beliefs and the law.
01:28Listening to the Law will be released September 9th by Sentinel, a conservative division of Penguin Random House.
01:34CNN reports Barrett received a $2 million advance.
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