Posted on 11/29/2016 8:48:14 PM PST by Morgana
Sarah Weddington, the Texas lawyer and abortion activist who argued for abortion in Roe v. Wade, says she is frightened by President-elect Donald Trump’s promises to make pro-life decisions.
In an interview with New York Magazine, Weddington said she fears that, although Trump’s actions would not overturn Roe v. Wade immediately, they could have a huge impact on the future of abortion in the U.S.
“For a lot of us who have been pro-choice through the years and have been involved in trying to keep it so that women have that choice, I think it’s really frightening, because it’s not immediate. Right now, nothing has changed. The president is opposed to abortion, but the law has not changed yet. And so once Trump is president, and once Pence does occupy the [president of the Senate’s] chair, then you’ve got the possibility for dramatic change,” Weddington said.
Trump promised to appoint “pro-life” justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, opening up the possibility of the court reconsidering the infamous abortion case in the future.
Weddington, 71, said she will not stop fighting for abortion on demand and Roe v. Wade.
“I am so determined that when we talk about women having the right to make decisions about their own lives, that abortion and reproductive issues are one of the things that most determines a woman’s future and options in many ways. I am so determined that Roe v. Wade be upheld,” Weddington told the magazine.
Weddington related a story about what happened on Jan. 22, 1973, the day the court handed down its decision on Roe:
Though it took months for the case to be decided, the law was instantly changed — “like a lightning strike” — as soon as the opinion was released. “Here in Austin, there was a doctor who had gotten the equipment to do abortions and he hadn’t done any because of the Texas law,” Weddington said. “But once Roe v. Wade was decided, he had one of his patients who happened to be a professor in the nursing school here at UT who was leaving that afternoon to go to California to get an abortion. He called her and said, ‘Wait, you don’t have to go to California. I can do it for you here in my office.’ So she came in that afternoon and he did her procedure. That’s how quick the change was.”
The liberal news outlet credited Weddington as an instrumental voice in the appointment of liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the high court, and called her a “champion of women’s rights.”
But Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe), Weddington’s client in Roe v. Wade, paints a very different picture of her former abortion activist lawyer. In her autobiography, McCorvey, who later became pro-life, said she felt like Weddington used her.
McCorvey said she met with Weddington and another attorney several times, but they never contacted her after she signed the affidavit that resulted in Roe v. Wade. Later, McCorvey said she read about the case outcome in the newspaper.
“Back in 1973, I was a very confused twenty-one year old with one child and facing an unplanned pregnancy,” she said in 2013. “At the time I fought to obtain a legal abortion, but truth be told, I have three daughters and never had an abortion.”
McCorvey was “pro-choice” on abortion at the time of the case, but she never actually had the abortion. Instead, she made an adoption plan for her baby. She said Weddington used her case to push her own abortion crusade, which was not something McCorvey wanted to pursue in court.
After becoming pro-life, McCorvey began working to reverse the infamous abortion case. In 2005, she petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn Roe, arguing that she had standing to do so as one of the original litigants and that there was new evidence that the procedure harms women. A court denied her petition.
Just allow them to be born, there are plenty of people ready to adopt babies.
Her fear...Her...Her name is Sarah Weddington.
Murdering babies. Liberals truly are monsters among us.
Yes, abortion is truly frightening... And then there are you sick 6th deviations from norm that think partial birth abortions are OK
Fear is the least of the worries a child experiences inside the womb of a progressive.
Trump won’t frighten you nearly as badly as God will.
In spite of her unrepentant statement, this evil woman who lives for killing God’s babies will stop fighting for abortion one day. And on that day, she will face the judgment of God, the Life Giver. As the proud murderer of 60 million babies, she will go to hell, because Jesus says, “ You know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” Or her.
(Kicks self for careless misuse of pronouns)
What is frightening is that the parents of these Weddington beast did not believe in abortion.
Frightening? Yeah, I bet that there are plenty of babies still in their mothers' bellies, just quaking in fear.
Regards,
These abortion people must have very dark hearts to not be able to see God’s gift of life and love and it doesn’t bother them to destroy it through selfishness and arrogance.
It’s truly a shame and hopefully now we are on the right path to fixing this shame on America.
CGato
Adding, "Oh, and by the way: Why not spare yourself the trouble and bring in your aged Labrador invalid grandmother for a quick injection of Potassium chloride? Got a big, new batch just this morning! Quality stuff!"
Really cheerful. Not far removed from the consolation of hearing, "Gee, you look really down in the dumps... How about a quick cap, right behind the ear? I can do it for you - cheap!"
Regards,
I knew Ann O’Donnell, President of Missouri Citizens for Life during the term of Jimmy Carter, the “Christian,” who was “personally opposed to abortion.”
Sarah Weddington was Public Liaison during Carter’s four years. Ann wrote a letter each month for four years, requesting a meeting with the wimp.
She never received any response whatsoever.
Prof. Waddington needs to speak with those women who were born because the abortion procedure meant to kill them did not function as intended.
She is a disgrace to the original feminists, who were in fact pro life.
I always knew George W Bush was not serious at his core because he repeatedly said, “There are good people on both sides of this issue.”
Right, just as there are good people on both sides of the child-rape issue.
nice one
Will she be hanging w Fidel? Maybe Fidel will abort her for eternity over and over and over again.
Abortion should be treated like any other form of FIRST DEGREE MURDER. And there should be no statute of limitations and no amnesty for women and doctors who committed the crime when it was “legal.” We should be seeking justice in every single case.
Close the clinics, but also seize and secure the records for use in future prosecutions.
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