In this November 3, 2016 lecture Amy Coney Barrett, speaking more like an analyst than an advocate, said the following about the future of Roe...
"I think people phrase the abortion question, when they think about the Supreme Court, as, 'is Roe vs. Wade going to be overruled?' ...
...We've had 30-plus years of a Court that did take, on the whole, a more conservative approach to the judicial role, and ... Casey vs. Pennsylvania, left Roe largely intact .. I don't think that abortion, or the right to abortion, would change ...
... I think some of the restrictions would change ... after the Kermit Gosnell affair ... states have imposed regulations on abortion clinics and I think the question is: how much freedom the Court is willing to let states have in regulating abortion. ...
... I think the question of -- you know, the Court has held that in some circumstances, states can render partial-birth abortion illegal, very late-term abortions -- I think that's the kind of thing that would change...
...I don't think that ... Roe's core holding, that women have a right to an abortion, I don't think that would change. But I think the question of whether people can get very late term abortions, how many restrictions can be put on clinics, I think that would change."
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