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In a new book called Listening to the Law, the 53-year-old justice wrote that Roe had been an “exercise of raw judicial power,” CNN reported.

She also argues in the book, which is set to be released on September 9, that the American people have not traditionally considered abortion a “fundamental” liberty and said the Roe court was “getting ahead of the American people” on the issue.

During her confirmation hearing, Coney Barrett—who was appointed by Trump in 2020 to fill the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat—had refused to say whether she thought Roe was correctly decided.


Although abortion isn’t explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, an earlier Supreme Court ruling had found that the Constitution’s Due Process Clause and Fourteenth Amendment implicitly create a fundamental “right to privacy.”

In Roe, the court found that this right to privacy also included the right to an abortion during the first trimester.


But in Listening to the Law, Coney Barrett writes: “Abortion not only lacked long-standing protection in American law — it had long been forbidden.”

The majority decision in Roe had reached a different conclusion, with the justices finding that restrictive criminal abortion laws are “of relatively recent vintage.”

In English common law, which the U.S. system is based on, abortions could be performed before “quickening,” or before the fetus’ movements can be felt at around 16 to 18 weeks of pregnancy.
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Link: https://www.newsbreak.com/thedailybeast-513346/4210072001126-amy-coney-barrett-s-2m-book-celebrates-overturning-abortion