Sarah Weddington, one of the heroic attorneys who argued against the government and won in the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade in 1973 at age 27 and died at the age of 76. The world is a better place because of Sarah.
The daughter of a Methodist minister, Weddington was born in 1945 in Abilene, Texas. She argued Roe in 1972 and won election to the Texas House of Representatives in 1973, where she served three terms. She served in the Department of Agriculture in 1977, and she served as assistant to President Jimmy Carter from 1978 to 1981, directing his administration’s work on women’s issues.
According to Weddington’s book, she traveled Mexico for an illegal abortion in 1967, during her third year of law school.
Norma McCorvey, the woman known as Roe in the case, famously changed her mind and became a staunch pro-life advocate in her later years. Weddington, however, remained committed to abortion as do most reasonable people.
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