In 1973, the lawyer had filed an appeal against a Texane law prohibiting the voluntary interruptions of pregnancy. The right to abortion has since been based on this case law, the historical judgment of the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade.
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She was one of the architects of the right to abortion in the United States. Counsel Sarah Weddington, who successfully argued the Roe V affair. Wade, died, Sunday, December 26, at the age of 76. In 1973, M me Weddington and another lawyer, Linda Coffee, had brought a class action on behalf of a pregnant woman who contests a state law of Texas who prohibited abortions.
“She pleaded with Linda Coffee what was the first case of her career, Roe V. Wade, while just born from the university of law,” wrote Susan Hays, One of his old female female, on Twitter . “She was my professor” and “opened my eyes to the fragility of my rights and freedom,” she stressed, stating that the lawyer had succumbed to “a series of health problems” . This information has been confirmed by the family in a letter transmitted to the local newspaper The Texas Tribune .
The Jane Roe – of its true name Norma McCorvey -, carried against the county prosecutor of Dallas, Henry Wade, had finally arrived in front of the Supreme Court, who voted in favor of the right to abortion . This one, which is not guaranteed by a federal law in the United States, has been resting since this case law: the historical judgment of the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade, dating from 1973.
“A house that would threaten to take the water”
In this judgment, the Supreme Court felt that the Constitution guaranteed the right of women to abort and that the States could not deprive them. In 1992, she said that this right was valid until the fetus was “viable”, up to about twenty-two and twenty-four weeks of pregnancy.
A majority of the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, however, seems to be tempted today to amend this legal framework that for almost fifty years guarantees the law of the Americans to abort, either by restricting it or by canceling it Purely and simply.
The US President Joe Biden, however, insured, the December 1 December, which he “continued” to support the ROE v jurisprudence. Wade. This historic stop “looks like a house that would be at the edge of a beach and threatening to take the water and collapse,” had already warned M me Weddington in 1998.