Image: James Bartlett/PA Images Image: James Bartlett/PA Images THE LEAK OF a US Supreme Court draft ruling that would seemingly overturn the landmark Roe v Wade decision securing a nationwide right to abortion has sparked widespread outrage – but attorney Linda Coffee is especially miffed.“I think that’s going to be awful” if the Supreme Court ultimately adopts the draft opinion published by Politico last week, the 79-year-old said in an interview with AFP at her home in Texas.
If Roe v Wade is overturned, it will be up to each state to decide whether or not to allow abortions – and how to set the conditions. After meeting Coffee and her legal partner Sarah Weddington, McCorvey eventually agreed to be the plaintiff, under the pseudonym “Jane Roe,” in a challenge to the Texas ban, which was formally filed against Henry Wade, the Dallas County district attorney.
“I’d sometimes get calls from people in South Dakota, or you know, even in Canada… Most of them didn’t know that Jane Roe never had an abortion!” said Coffee, with a chuckle.
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