The U.S. Supreme Courts decision to overturn abortion as a constitutional right was naive and leaves too many questions, former Justice Stephen Breyer reportedly said in a recent interview that characterized the court as taking a wrong turn but a restorable one.

There are too many questions, Breyer told The New York Times about the lingering effects of the courts 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization , which entrusted states with the right to outlaw or reduce access to the medical procedure. Breyer was among three justices who dissented on the ruling immediately before his retirement.

Are they really going to allow women to die on the table because they wont allow an abortion which would save her life? I mean, really, no one would do that. And they wouldnt do that. And therell be dozens of questions like that, he said while discussing the ruling and the March 26 release of his book, Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism.

The Dobbs majoritys hope that legislatures and not courts will decide the abortion question will not be realized, hes quoted by the Times in an excerpt of his book.