Although Ginsburg has consistently supported abortion rights and joined in the court's opinion striking down Nebraska's partial-birth abortion law in Stenberg v. Carhart 530 U.S. 914 (2000), on the 40th anniversary of the court's ruling in Roe v. Wade 410 U.S. 113 (1973), she criticized the decision in Roe as terminating a nascent democratic movement to liberalize abortion laws which might have built a more durable consensus in support of abortion rights.
虽然金斯伯格一贯支持堕胎权，也加入了内布拉斯加州关于推翻部分出生堕胎法的斯坦伯格诉卡哈特案（英语：Stenberg v. Carhart）（Stenberg v. Carhart）530 U.S. 914 (2000)的法庭意见，但在羅訴韋德案 410 U.S. 113 (1973)最高法院裁决40周年后，她批评这个裁决终止了对于放宽堕胎法的新兴民主运动，而这項運動可能为支持堕胎权建立更持久的共识。