50 years after arguing Roe v. Wade, Sarah Weddington dies at 76

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Sarah Weddington, a Texas lawyer who as a 26-year-old successfully argued the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade before the U.S. Supreme Court, died Sunday. She was 76.

Susan Hays, Weddington’s former student and colleague, said she died in her sleep early Sunday morning at her Austin home. Weddington had been in poor health for some time and it was not immediately clear what caused her death, Hays told The Associated Press.

Raised as a minister's daughter in the West Texas city of Abilene, Weddington attended law school at the University of Texas. A couple years after graduating, she and a former classmate, Linda Coffee, brought a class-action lawsuit on behalf of a pregnant woman challenging a state law that largely banned abortions.


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With all the blood of millions of babies on her hands, she will get now what she deserves. Babies whose right to live she took away. She will stand before the eternal judge now and receive her “reward”.

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I was hoping she would live long enough to see Rowe overturned. Too bad.

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