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"If I had had the baby, I would never have been able to support myself and graduate from law school." Ron and Sarah married in 1968. After her graduation from law school, Weddington became ...
Sarah Weddington, the Texas lawyer who successfully ... nearly three years before the final court decision, and gave the baby up for adoption. Weddington was just 26 years old in 1971 when she ...
Sarah Weddington, who as a young Texas lawyer appeared ... Wade McCorvey was not among those women. She delivered her baby 2½ years before the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade and gave the ...
Sarah Weddington was an unlikely advocate for abortion ... a clear and easy test for psychopathy.) A baby couldn’t be permitted to get in the way of her quest for A’s. In the middle-1960s ...
McCorvey became the plaintiff, “Jane Roe”, although by the time the Supreme Court issued its ruling, her baby had been born and given up for adoption. Sarah Weddington, who at 26 convinced the ...
Sarah Weddington, who as a young Texas lawyer appeared ... McCorvey was not among those women. She delivered her baby two and a half years before the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v Wade, and gave ...
In 1972, Sarah Weddington, then a 26-year-old attorney ... the state from dictating whether they would or would not have a baby. I think that lawyers challenging Roe would go at it every way ...
Featuring a Radio Boston segment from 2017, Meghna looks back on her conversation with the Texas attorney who successfully argued Roe v. Wade 44 years ago.
Sarah Weddington, who successfully argued against Texas' anti-abortion statutes before the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1973 landmark case Roe v. Wade, died in Austin at age 76 Sunday morning ...
McCorvey became the plaintiff, “Jane Roe”, although by the time the Supreme Court issued its ruling, her baby had been born and given up for adoption. Sarah Weddington, who at 26 convinced the ...