Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett defended the decision overturning Roe v. Wade in a forthcoming memoir, per a report from CNN.

“Listening to the Law,” due out on September 9, argues that the landmark 1973 ruling improperly imposed abortion rights on the nation and short-circuited political debate. Barrett called the decision that granted a nationwide right to abortion via an understanding of the Constitution’s implied right to privacy an “exercise of raw judicial power.”

“[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.

Barrett joined Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in the 2022 case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Barrett said abortion rights were never deeply rooted in

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