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Profound effects on their bodies, their health and the course of their lives. >> reporter: the court's 6-3 conservative majority appeared poised to uphold the mississippi law, but it was less clear if there was a majority to end the federal right to abortion. a key vote, justice cavanaugh appeared skeptical that the interests of pregnant women and fetuses can both be accommodated. >> the reason this is hard is you can't accommodate both interests. you have to pick. that's the fundamental problem. >> reporter: we don't expect an opinion in this case until june, maybe even early july when major ...

Terminating one's pregnancy? it's a fundamental misconception of what is being talked about. the idea you're going to say as long as you can terminate parental rights and put your child up for adoption, that is the same thing as being able to have the choice and agency to terminate one's pregnancy is so flawed, so is justice cavanaugh's thought here, don, where he suggests the supreme court ought to be neutral. well, i want a supreme court neutral, said no one ever. the whole role of the judicial nine is to be able to be decisive and make decisions where the lower courts particularly have conf...

>> listen, i think she was much more gullible than for instance dianne feinstein who said listen, she's had many people come before congress who wanted to get on the supreme court and said they believed in the principle of stare decisis and the president takes precedent and not overturning precedent, and she has seen the same judges go and overturn precedent. so she was much more skeptical of what cavanaugh was saying and you had of course there with collins believing what cavanaugh said. listen, i think what is most important here is what did donald trump say in 2016? he was going to appoint ...

Because it was 50-50, right? >> right. >> close to that. so fast forward to today. cavanaugh presented a list of cases where the supreme court overturned long held precedents. what happened to senator collins assuring people cavanaugh thought roe was settled law? >> listen, i think she was much more gullible than for instance dianne feinstein who said listen, she's had many people come before congress who wanted to get on the supreme court and said they believed in the principle of stare decisis and the president takes precedent and not overturning precedent, and she has seen the same judges g...

>> as a judge, it is an important precedent of the supreme court. by it, i mean roe v. wade and planned parenthood versus casey been reaffirmed many times. casey is precedent on precedent. which itself is an important factor. >> okay. now susan collins around that time. >> we talked about whether he considered roe to be settled law. he said that he agreed with what justice roberts said at his nomination hearing in which he said that it was settled law. >> okay, nia. so remember, it was really close. she was a deciding vote at least because it was 50-50, right? >> right. >> close to that. so fa...