Amy Coney Barrett Defends Overturning Roe v. Wade In First Television Interview as a Justice

Justice Amy Coney Barrett defended one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most consequential decisions in recent years — the overturning of federal protections on abortion rights — in her first television interview since joining the court five years ago.

Barrett spoke with CBS’s Norah O’Donnell in a Sunday interview that was previewed on CBS’s This Morning.

O’Donnell asked Barrett about a portrait of Abigail Adams — wife of the second U.S. President John Adams and mother to the sixth U.S. President John Quincy Adams — that’s hanging in her office.