Sarah Weddington, an iconic attorney for representing “Jane Roe,” real name Norma McCorvey, in the Roe v Wade case at the Supreme Court, with which the sages legalized abortion in the United States, has died at the age of 76. At the age of 26, Weddintgon presented McCorvey’s case to American sages. The two women met in 1970, when McCorvey was pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. In presenting the case, the attorney tried to keep McCorvey’s anonymity by calling her Jane Roe.
Weddington argued the case in high court twice, in December 1971 and again in October 1972, obtaining the 7-2 sentence the following year that legalized abortion nationwide. In those years she was elected to the Texas House of Representatives and later became general counsel of the United States Department of Agriculture and, later, a consultant on women’s affairs to President Jimmy Carter.
Sarah Weddington later wrote a book on the case, lectured and lectured at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas Women’s University, among others, on leadership and gender discrimination. She remained active in the political and legal world until her final years. His death comes at a particular moment in US history, where the Supreme Court – which after Trump has six conservative judges out of nine – is called upon to address Mississippi’s request to ban abortion after the 15th week.