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"Sarah Weddington was a Texas giant,” Texas state Rep. John Bucy said on Twitter. “From litigating Roe v. Wade, to serving in the Texas House, to supporting countless women in politics, she has left a legacy of fighting for progress that is nearly unmatched,” he wrote. Weddington, the daughter of a Methodist minister, was 26 years old and just five years removed from law school when she took on the controversial case.

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...

Ron Weddington, one of the attorneys who drafted the brief for abortion rights in Roe V Wade, wrote a private letter to President-elect Bill Clinton arguing for the state to use abortion as population control. This letter was written in 1992: “[Y]ou can start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country. No, I’m not advocating some sort of mass extinction of these unfortunate people. Crime, drugs and disease are already doing that. The problem is that their numbers are not only replaced but increased by the birth of millions of babies to people who...

Sarah Weddington will forever be known as the lead attorney in the infamous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that allowed virtually unlimited abortions. As she prepares for a speaking engagement in Canada, she told a newspaper that nothing in her legal career tops her involvement in that decision. Weddington was only 26-years-old when she went to the Supreme Court in 1971 to argue the case that would eventually topple pro-life laws nationwide two years later. She tells the Vancouver Sun newspaper that, decades later, she can find nothing in her career or life that she realizes she will be...

Use Abortion to Kill Poor Americans, Roe Attorney Husband told Bill Clintonby Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com EditorMay 15, 2006Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Newly released papers regarding President Bill Clinton's promotion of the dangerous abortion drug RU 486 during his administration have produced a startling revelation. The husband of the woman who was the lead attorney in the Roe v. Wade case wrote the former president to urge him to use abortion to kill poor Americans.Last week, LifeNews.com reported on the release of presidential papers from the Clinton administration years showing the former president's first action as president in 1993 was to...

In unearthed letter urged President-elect Clinton to 'reform' country A letter to Bill Clinton written by the co-counsel who successfully argued the Roe v. Wade decision urged the then-president-elect to "eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country" by liberalizing abortion laws. Ron Weddington, who with his wife Sarah Weddington represented "Jane Roe," sent the four-page letter to President Clinton's transition team before Clinton took office in January 1993. The missive turned up in an exhibit put together by the watchdog legal group Judicial Watch, which has been researching the Clinton administration's policy on the abortion drug...

Did you know that several Republican leaders in Texas have been issuing apologies for slavery and bigotry on behalf of our party? They are and it includes our immediate former Republican Party of Texas Chairman Susan Weddington.Democrat liberals do this sort of thing all the time when pandering and race hustling to Jesse Jackson and his following for votes, but to see this sort of stuff from Republican leaders seems unbelievable.Since this story is so far fetched many have experienced disbelief in it at first. But rest assured, it happened and here is the evidence that could be assembled from...

* Susan Weddington resigned her position as State Party Chair in November 2003 * As Vice Chair it was David Barton’s duty to move up as Interim Chair until Delegates to the State convention could elect a Permanent Chair. * David chose not to exercise his Vice Chair responsibility and instead turned to the State Republican Executive Committee to elect an Interim Chair—threatening to resign if Gina Parker was elected. * By a nine-vote margin Tina was elected to serve as Interim Chair of the RPT over Gina Parker who was already planning to run for Party Chair at the...

TCR has been wondering if whether this year principled conservatives will get to run the Texas Republican Party or will the establishment/big business types run it through willing surrogates? First, TCR urges all delegates to the state convention in San Antonio to actually show up and have an open mind about party leadership. Just because someone holds office, doesn't mean they should continue to. Look at what he or she has actually accomplished - like the financial state of the party, what the party is doing to advance conservative principles, what vision do the candidates have about the future and...

Roe no more, but still a voice on abortion Norma McCorvey resurfaces on other side of issue that has defined her life By THOMAS KOROSEC Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Dallas Bureau DALLAS -- Norma McCorvey is just one woman with an opinion about abortion. But that is not why the world continues to beat a path to the modest Dallas bungalow where she has lived for the past three decades. In 1973, McCorvey was the identity-shielded Jane Roe of the landmark Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion. Years later, after her much-publicized conversion to Christianity in 1995, she started...

Just when we are so very tired of the cold and the early darkness and the bleakness of winter, there is hope just around the corner. Beginning in March, there’ll be a series of talks at the Rosemont Theatre presented by Unique Lives & Experiences. According to its web site, Unique Lives & Experiences is the country’s foremost women’s lecture series. It "was developed in response to women’s requests for intellectual entertainment and provides them with a forum for meaningful dialogue and stimulating interaction." Meaningful dialogue. Stimulating interaction. Think there are enough red flags here? Obviously not for the sponsors...

Some object to UWT graduation speaker David Wickert; The News Tribune Some University of Washington Tacoma students are upset that the lawyer who successfully argued Roe v. Wade before the U.S. Supreme Court will be this year's commencement speaker. Sarah Weddington is a former Texas legislator, a former Carter administration official and an author who speaks frequently on effective leadership. But to concerned UW students, she will always be associated with the controversial 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion. And they worry her speech will politicize a ceremony meant to honor their hard work and accomplishments. "We're faced with...

Lawyer, 'Roe' Now at Odds on Abortion DALLAS (AP) - They were on the same side 30 years ago, fighting for the right of women to get an abortion. But attorney Sarah Weddington and one-time abortion rights poster girl Norma McCorvey have sharply contrasting views today.Weddington, the lawyer who tried the Roe v. Wade case and became an icon of the women's rights movement, is worried that as the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision approaches Wednesday, anti-abortion forces are gaining political strength.``It's melancholy celebration,'' Weddington says. ``I am more concerned today about the future of Roe v....