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Voters in three cities in Texas and Nebraska strongly approved local ordinances Tuesday that ban abortions and declare their communities to be sanctuaries for unborn babies. In Texas, voters in Abilene approved a Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance with 53 percent voting in favor and 47 percent against, KTAB News reports. The action was especially significant because Abilene was the home of Sarah Weddington, one of the two pro-abortion lawyers who argued the case Roe v. Wade, which forced states to legalize abortion on demand. “Many people are seeing this effort as a way that Abilene can redeem history...

Sarah Weddington, the Texas attorney who argued for abortion in Roe v. Wade, expressed concern that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has “the determination” to overturn the infamous case. Speaking with Glamour this week, Weddington echoed the worries of many in the abortion industry about the future of the high court and abortion on demand. If confirmed, Kavanaugh would swing the court to a 5-4 conservative majority and open up the possibility of overturning Roe v. Wade and restoring protections to unborn babies. Senate hearings about his confirmation begin Tuesday. “For several years now I’ve talked about how my...

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...

Roe v. Wade Lawyer Sarah Weddington Laid Off as Texas Professor Austin, TX -- Budget cuts at the University of Texas have forced college officials to lay off Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who was the main attorney behind the infamous Roe v. Wade case that allowed virtually unlimited abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/05/02/roe-v-wade-lawyer-sarah-weddington-laid-off-as-texas-professor

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...

EDINBURG — On a recent flight Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who successfully argued Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court, proudly wore a pin made popular during the height of the abortion rights movement in 1973. The pin, an image of a coat hanger with a line through it, was just too jarring for one flight attendant, Weddington said. “What do you have against coat hangers,” the flight attendant asked her. The crowd of mostly University of Texas-Pan American students erupted in laughter when Weddington told that story Tuesday as the final speaker in the UTPA Distinguished Speaker series. Previous...

Pro-Choice Students to Thank Roe v Wade Attorney Sarah Weddington at Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Anniversary Event 10/16/03 1:12:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Marjorie Signer of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, 202-628-7700 ext. 12 or info@rcrc.org WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- An Oklahoma high school student and a Grinnell (Iowa) College freshman who wrote winning essays about abortion rights will personally express their gratitude to famed Roe v. Wade attorney Sarah Weddington at a Washington DC dinner Thursday, October 23. The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice is holding the dinner to observe its 30th...

Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 to make abortion legal, speaks in Atlanta tonight at the ninth annual "Women in Law" event sponsored by the Atlanta Women's Foundation. She couldn't have come at a more propitious time. In Georgia and other states, 2003 is the low point for women who want to determine for themselves when and if to bear children. "It's all part of a national pattern," said Weddington in a telephone interview last week. She was referring to the quiet undermining of the Roe v. Wade decision that she says begins at...

<p>McCorvey is "Jane Roe," the pseudonym she assumed to remain anonymous as the lead plaintiff in the case that legalized abortion in the United States.</p> <p>"I'm very sad (about the anniversary)," she told CNN Interactive in a telephone interview. "But this year, I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad."</p>