Sarah Weddington, attorney who won Roe v Wade abortion case, dies aged 76

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In her Guardian interview, Weddington discussed arguing the case in federal court. “I was very nervous,” she said. “It was like going down a street with no street lights. But there was no other way to go and I didn’t have any preconceived notions that I would not win.”“Henry Wade, the district attorney, unwittingly helped us,” she said. “At a press conference, he said, ‘I don’t care what any court says; I am going to continue to prosecute doctors who carry out abortion.

Weddington predicted: “Whatever else I do in my life, the headline on my obituary is always going to be ‘Roe v Wade attorney dies’.”in her tweets on Sunday. “Those career doors shut to her led her to run for office, getting elected as the first woman from Travis county in the [Texas legislature] in 1972 .

 

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slsandpet Thanks to Sarah Wellington women in the US prefer abortion to other types of birth control methods. Abortion should be allowed for cases of rape, incest, deformed fetus & where life of the woman is threatened by the pregnancy or birth. Adoption should be encouraged instead.

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