(Washington) Sarah Weddington, Landmark Row v. Lawyer who successfully argued the abortion rights case. Wade, who appeared before the United States Supreme Court in 1973, died on Sunday at the age of 76, according to one of his alumni.
In 1973, Sarah Weddington and fellow lawyer Linda Coffee filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of a pregnant woman challenging a law banning abortions in the state of Texas.
“The first case in her career was when she begged Linda for coffee at Roy V. Wade, when she dropped out of law school,” Susan Hayes, one of Sarah Weddington’s alumni, wrote on Twitter.
“She was my teacher” and “opened my eyes to the vulnerability of my rights and my freedom,” she said, as the lawyer “surrendered to a series of health issues.”
The “Jane Rowe” case – originally named Norma McCorvey – was eventually brought before the Supreme Court by Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade, who ruled in favor of abortion rights.
The right to abortion in the United States – which is not guaranteed by federal law – has since been based on this jurisprudence: the landmark Supreme Court decision, “Row v. Wade since 1973.
In this judgment, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution gives women the right to undergo abortion and that states cannot drain it. In 1992, she clarified that this right was valid until the fetus was “possible” at 22 to 24 weeks of gestation.
However, a majority of Supreme Court justices in the United States appear to be seeking to amend this legal framework, which guarantees American women the right to abortion for almost 50 years by restricting or completely abolishing it.
Assured by US President Joe Biden1Is In December he wrote “Roy v. Wade ”, which established the right to abortion in the United States.
The historic ‘Roy v. Wade “looks like a house on the edge of a beach that threatens to collapse with water,” Sarah Weddington warned in 1998.
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