The U.S. Supreme Court may have jumped the gun by handing down a nationwide abortion rule rather than letting the law develop state by state, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said.

In remarks during a Columbia Law School event marking the 40^th anniversary of Ginsburg becoming the school’s first tenured female professor, Ginsburg said of Roe v. Wade: “It’s not that the judgment was wrong, but it moved too far too fast.”

“The court made a decision that made every abortion law in the country invalid, even the most liberal,” Ginsburg said, according to the Associated Press. “We’ll never know whether I’m right or wrong … things might have turned out differently if the court had been more restrained.”

It’s not the first time Ginsburg has made that observation, but her comments made headlines over the weekend. Ginsburg also made headlines last week with her comments on whether Egyptian officials should look to the U.S. Constitution when drafting their own.

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