Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has written a new memoir titled "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution."

Barrett spends part of the book defending her ruling on abortion despite confessing that it "did not top the list of things I wanted to talk about."

Justice notes how abortion "lacked long-standing protection"

That's according to CNN, which reported on Tuesday that it had obtained access to the book, including passages concerning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case which established abortion as a constitutional right.

"[T]he Court’s role is to respect the choices that the people have agreed upon, not to tell them what they should agree to," Barrett wrote.

"The evidence does not show that the American people have traditionally considered the right to obtain an abortion so fundamental to liberty that it ‘goes without saying’ in the Constitution," she declared.

"In fact, the evidence cuts in the opposite direction. Abortion not only lacked long-standing protection in American law – it had long been forbidden," Barrett insisted.

"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, herself a supporter of abortion rights, observed nearly twenty years after Roe that the case may have 'halted a political process that was moving in a reform direction,' 'prolonged divisiveness,' and 'deferred stable settlement of the issue,'" she recalled.

Barrett has new understanding of how opinions are written

CNN noted how in addition to discussing abortion, Barrett also provided insight into how Supreme Court opinions come together.

"Before I joined the Court, I was sometimes frustrated by an opinion’s cryptic language or its failure to resolve fairly obvious points," she explained.

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However, the conservative justice quickly added, "Now I better appreciate that glossing over issues is often deliberate."

Barrett calls on judges to "to argue without letting it consume relationships"

Her book is not the only venue in which Barrett has discussed her time on America's highest judicial body, as Fox News reported that she also did so last month.

While speaking in Chicago to attendees at the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference, Barrett said that remaining civil with colleagues in the face of disagreements is "what enables the judicial system to work well."

"We know how to argue well," the justice acknowledged before adding, "We also know how to argue without letting it consume relationships."