'I don’t have any agenda': Amy Coney Barrett refuses to say whether she would overturn Roe v Wade abortion rights

US Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has refused to say whether she would undercut the 1973 Roe v Wade case that enshrined American women’s right to an abortion.

When asked by California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein if she agreed with her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, that Roe v Wade was wrongly decided, Ms Barrett invoked Justice Elena Kagan’s answers during her 2010 hearings that “the canons of judicial conduct would prohibit” her from expressing a view.

“If I express a view on a precedent one way or another … it signals to litigants that I may tilt one way or another on a pending case,” Ms Barrett said. “I can’t pre-commit and say, yes, I’m going in with some agenda.”