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Are those in contraception who take longer to recognize a pregnancy. to avoid profound damage to women's liberty, equality, and the rule of law, the court should affirm. >> counsel, i just have one question. i assume from your brief you are relying on an autonomy theory. >> both bodily integrity and the ability to make decisions related to family, marriage and childbearing, your honor. >> shortly some years after we decided casey, we had a case out of south carolina, i believe, involved a woman who had been convicted of criminal child neglect because she ingested cocaine during pregnancy. in h...

Consequences. negative considerations we pointed out. none of them involve the purposeful termination of a human life. those two features and termination of a human life puts all of those safely out of reach if the court overrules here. >> you might be making progress in the part that i read, you know, of casey. i think they go back 150 years and maybe go back 200. they think there have only been two cases which are what they called the watershed where the special tough overruling rules apply. you want this to be the third or do you think there were more? and if so, what were they? >> well, yo...

They mentioned. and they don't want casey, they don't want roe to be the third. now in your opinion you just answered justice barrett all these are not rising to that level. okay. are there any that do rise to the level in your opinion? >> i think -- i'm not sure i necessarily agree with the watershed characterization your honor. i can't think of another that hits the radar. the problem here is we're dealing with a right that doesn't have a basis in constitutional text. again, very much in conflict with those values, justice breyer. >> i'm not sure how your answer makes any sense. all of those...

What we will follow, that we won't be able to survive if people believe that everything, including new york versus sullivan, i could name any other set of rights, including the second amendment, by the way. there are many political people who believe the court erred in seeing this as a personal right as opposed to a militia right. if people actually believe that it is all political, how will we survive? how will the court survive? >> justice sotomayor, i think the concern about appearing political makes it absolutely imperative that the court reach a decision well grounded in the constitution,...

A woman to choose, the right to control her own body, has been clearly set forth since casey and never challenged. you want us to reject that right of viability and adopt something different. 15 justices over 50 years have or i should say 30 since casey, have reaffirmed that basic viability line. four have said no, two of them members of this court. but 15 justices have said yes. of varying political backgrounds. now the sponsors of this bill, the house bill in mississippi, said we are doing it because we have new justices. the newest ban mississippi put