Dec 27, 2021 · Sarah Weddington, the Texas lawyer who successfully argued the 1973 landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade, has died. She was 76. Weddington's former student and colleague, Susan Hays, announced on...
Dec 27, 2021 · DALLAS (AP) — Sarah Weddington, a Texas lawyer who as a 26-year-old successfully argued the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade before the U.S. Supreme Court, died Sunday. She was 76.
Dec 26, 2021 · Sarah Weddington, an attorney who argued the winning side of the landmark case Roe v. Wade, to make abortion legal, before the United States Supreme Cour, poses with a signed copy of the decision...
Dec 26, 2021 · DALLAS (AP) — Sarah Weddington, a Texas lawyer who as a 26-year-old successfully argued the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade before the U.S. Supreme Court, died Sunday. She was 76. Susan Hays, Weddington’s former student and colleague, said she died in her sleep early Sunday morning at her Austin home.
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Weddington died at her home in Austin, Texas on December 26, 2021, at age 76, after a period of declining health. News outlets noted that her death occurred shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v.
On June 17, 1970, the three judges unanimously ruled in McCorvey's favor and declared the Texas law unconstitutional, finding that it violated the right to privacy found in the Ninth Amendment.
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