Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who won the historic Roe v. Wade, who founded the right to an abortion in the United States before the Supreme Court in 1973, died on Sunday at the age of 76, said one of her former students.
In 1973, Sarah Huntington and a colleague, Linda Coffey, filed a lawsuit on behalf of a pregnant woman challenging a Texas law banning abortion.
“Sarah Wendington, along with Linda Coffey, defended the first case of her career, Roe v. “Wade, while she was just finishing law school,” wrote Susan Hayes, one of her former students, on Twitter.
“She was my teacher and opened my eyes to how fragile my rights and freedoms are,” she wrote, noting that the lawyer had succumbed to a number of health problems.
The “Jane Roe” case (her real name was Norma McCorway) against Dallas County Attorney Henry Wade has finally reached the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the right to abortion.
The right to abortion in the United States – which is not guaranteed by federal law – has since been based on that decision: the historic Supreme Court ruling “Roe v. Wade “of 1973.
In that ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution guarantees women’s right to abortion and that states cannot deprive them of it. In 1992, she clarified that this right applies as long as the fetus is not “viable”, ie at 22 to 24 weeks of pregnancy.
The conservative majority of Supreme Court justices today show the intention to change this legal framework, which has guaranteed for half a century the right of American women to terminate their pregnancies, either by imposing restrictions or abolishing them without spin.
On December 1, US President Joe Biden gave the assurance that he would continue to support the decision “Roe v. Wade ».
The historic decision “Roe v. Wade “” looks like a house on the edge of a beach and is threatened with flooding and collapsing, “Sarah Huntington warned in 1998.
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