(Reuters) -Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has defended her 2022 vote to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that recognized a constitutional right to abortion in a new book set to be published next week.

“(T)he Court’s role is to respect the choices that the people have agreed upon, not to tell them what they should agree to,” Barrett wrote in her memoir, “Listening to the Law,” according to CNN, which obtained a copy before its September 9 release.

The 5-4 ruling in 2022 set in motion a dramatic change in abortion access for millions of women in America, with 18 states implementing near-total abortion bans or bans at an early stage of pregnancy, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights research group.

Overall, the share of Americans

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