An anti-abortion protester holds a cross while demonstrating in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on December 1, 2021. Jose Luis Magana/AP/File

Justice Anthony Kennedy considered quitting the Supreme Court over abortion.

Kennedy, who served from 1988 to 2018, makes the revelation in a new book as he explains how he balanced his Catholic faith and ultimately cast the deciding vote in 1992 that saved abortion rights for the next three decades.

His writings and a recent book by Justice Amy Coney Barrett , a conservative Catholic who provided the key vote in 2022 to end a constitutional right to obtain an abortion, provide a rare window into personal conflicts regarding religion and the law.

Catholics have increasingly dominated the high court and prompted debate over ho

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