‘I’m kind of shocked’: Amy Coney Barrett backs up Sonia Sotomayor in abortion case

Conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett appeared to briefly take the side of liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor on abortion rights Wednesday.

The high court was hearing oral arguments on the conflict between Idaho's stringent abortion ban and a federal law that mandates emergency medical care standards in hospitals, including for pregnant women.

Sotomayor asked Idaho lawyer Joshua Turner about a woman who was brought to the emergency room at 14 weeks of pregnancy.

"This particular patient...