This article was originally published as part of our 2023 project Roe, 50 Years Later, a collection of stories marking what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

If we don’t speak ill of the dead, who will? The vicious bon mot sprang to mind when I learned of the death over the weekend of Sarah Weddington, aged 76. She was the Texas lawyer who ...

Pregnancy has an enormous effect on the woman involved. As Sarah Weddington put it to the US Supreme Court in Roe v Wade: A pregnancy to a woman is perhaps one of the most determinative aspects of ...

Cecile Richards, an activist and former president of Planned Parenthood who led the organization for more than a decade through a time of intense controversy, died Monday, her family said in a ...

She was a graduate of the prestigious Brown University and as a teen, she laid down feminist roots — she helped her mother campaign for Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who emerged victorious in Roe v.