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Chief justice, once-controversial issues are quite settled and clear rules and don't have those considerations against them. by overruling and a lot of those decisions are quite readily roundable in history, tradition, and the court's traditional decisions your honor. >> justice thomas, justice breyer? justice alito? justice sotomayor? justice kagan? >> i just wanted to get your quick sense of how your intermediate positions would work if basically the viability line was discarded and undue burden became the standard overall, a standard that according to you, is an unclear one, what that would...

Requiring the woman to go 15, 16 weeks more and then terminate parental rights at the conclusion. why didn't you address the safe haven laws and why don't you think they matter? >> for a couple reasons. eve -- the idea a woman could place a child up for adoption has been true since roe. it's a consideration that the court already had before it when it decided those cases and adhered to the viability line. but in addition, we don't just focus on the burdens of parenting and neither did roe. instead, pregnancy itself is unique. it imposes unique physical demands and risk on women and, in fact, h...

Of opinion with respect to undue burden, but the right of a woman to choose the right to control her own body has been clearly set for casey and never challenged. you want us to reject that line of viability and adopt something different. 15 justices over 50 years have been -- or i should say, 30, since casey, have reaffirmed the viability line. four have said "no." two of them, members of this court. but 15 justices have said "yes." or varying political backgrounds. now the sponsors of this bill, the house bill in mississippi

>> that's the point. isn't that -- isn't that the point? >> that there's a diversity of views and people can vigorously debate and make -- >> exactly. and that's what we're still doing -- that's what we're doing under undue burden, but we haven't been doing it on the viability line. >> and neither one has worked well. the viability line discounts and disregards state interests and the undue burden standard has all of the problems -- >> how is your interest anything but a religious view? the issue of when life begins has been hotly debated by philosophers since the beginning of time. it's still...

Rid of. i think we have an excerpt from that. >> let's play that for everyone. sonia sotomayor really laid into the solicitor general of mississippi with a lengthy line of questioning. here is part of it. let's play that. >> the right of a woman to choose, the right to control her own body, has been clearly set for -- since casey and never challenged. you want us to reject that line 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.