Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett defended the 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, saying that it was a states’ right issue that should be “properly left to the democratic process.” During an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday with host Norah O’Donnell, Barrett also said justices need to “tune out” the noise from critics like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“Dobbs did not render abortion illegal. Dobbs did not say anything about whether abortion is immoral. Dobbs said that these are questions that are left to the states. And all of these kinds of questions – decisions that you mention that require medical judgments – are not ones that our Constitution connects to the courts, you know, to decide how far into pregnancy the right of abortion might extend. You know, the court was in the business of drawing a lot of those lines before, and what Dobbs says is that those calls are properly left to the democratic process. And the states have been working those out. There’s been a lot of legislative activity and a lot of state constitutional activity since the decision in Dobbs was rendered,” Barrett said.

CBS had released excerpts on Thursday: