Texan lawyer and Linda Coffee won landmark 1973 case, safeguarding right now under threat from US supreme court
Summary
- Sarah Weddington, an attorney who argued and won the Roe v Wade supreme court case which established the right to abortion in the US, has died.
- “With Linda Coffee, she filed the first case of her legal career, Roe v Wade, fresh out of law school.
- Sarah Weddington poses with a signed copy of the Roe v Wade decision in front of the US supreme court in 2005.
- Photograph: Karen Bleier/AFP/GettyWeddington found her way to Roe v Wade soon after graduating from the University of Texas.
- Represented by Weddington and Coffee, Norma McCorvey became the plaintiff known as “Jane Roe” in Roe v Wade.