Sarah Ragle Weddington (born February 5, 1945), is an American lawyer, law professor and former member of the Texas Representative Council known for representing "Jane Roe" (original name of Norma McCorvey) in Roe landmark v. Wade before the United States Supreme Court. In 1989, he was portrayed by Amy Madigan in the television movie Roe vs. Wade .
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Background and education
Born Sarah Ragle in Abilene, Texas, Weddington is the daughter of Lena Catherine and Reverend Herbert Doyle Ragle, a Methodist minister. As a child, he is the big drummer of his junior band, president of the Methodist youth association in his church, playing organ, singing in church choirs and riding horses.
Weddington graduated from high school two years earlier and then graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from McMurry University. She is a member of the Sigma Kappa association of female students. In 1964, he entered the Law Faculty of the University of Texas.
In 1967, during his third year of law school, Weddington was conceived with his lover Ron Weddington and went to Mexico for an illegal abortion. He received his doctorate in the same year, graduating in the top quarter of his class.
From 1968 to 1974, he married Weddington.
Weddington holds honorary doctorates from McMurry University, Hamilton College, Austin College, Southwest University and Nova Southeastern University.
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Roe v. Wade
After graduation, Weddington had trouble finding a job at a law firm. He instead joined a group of graduate students at the University of Texas-Austin who were researching ways to challenge various anti-abortion laws.
Soon after, a pregnant woman named Norma McCorvey visited a local lawyer who sought an abortion. The lawyer even helped McCorvey by giving up his son for adoption and after that, referring McCorvey to Weddington and Linda Coffee. In March 1970, Weddington and his legal counsel filed a lawsuit against Henry Wade, Dallas district attorney and the person responsible for enforcing the anti-abortion law. McCorvey became a landmark plaintiff and was referred to in legal documents as "Jane Roe" to protect his identity.
Weddington first declared his case before a three-judge district court in May 1970 in Dallas. The district court agreed that Texas abortion laws were unconstitutional, but the state appealed the decision, and landed it before the United States Supreme Court.
Weddington appeared before the Supreme Court in 1971 and again in the autumn of 1972. His argument was based on the 1st, 4th, 5th, 5th, 9th and 14th amendments, and the previous Court's decision on > Griswold v. Connecticut , which legalizes contraceptive sales based on privacy rights.
The Court's decision was finally handed down in January 1973, annulling Texas's Texas abortion law by a 7-2 majority and legalized abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. At age 27, Weddington remains the youngest person to deny the successful Supreme Court case.
In 1992, Weddington gathered his experiences with cases and interviews with people involved in a book called A Question of Choice.
Next career
After debating Roe v. Wade , Weddington was chosen to be three terms in the Texas Representative Council.
Weddington attended the historic 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston when a delegation from Texas spoke about the resolution of women's reproductive freedom.
In addition, Weddington served in the US Department of Agriculture in 1977, Jimmy Carter's assistant president from 1978 to 1981 and a lecturer at Texas Women's University from 1981 to 1990. He is the founder of the Weddington Center.
Until 2012 he was a speaker and professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Further reading
- The work of Sarah Weddington
- Selected Questions, Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated, 1993, ISBNÃ, 9780831753344; Conseller & Book Sales Dist, 2013, ISBN 9781558618121
- United States Delegation at the United Nations Conference on Women, Copenhagen (14-30 July 1980)
- The legal status of housewives in Texas (1997)
- Weddington, Sarah (March 31, 2003). "Getting the Right to Choose". Time .
- Working with Sarah Weddington as Contributing Author
- Guide for resources (1980)
- Respect commitment to the American people: President Jimmy Carter's record of the (1980) problem
- Roe v. Wade: processing arguments before the US Supreme Court (1970s)
- Barbara Vackar's paper (1972-1979)
- Hermine Tobolowsky Collection (1957-1983)
- Documentary progress during the reign of Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)
- Texas woman in politics (1977)
- Working about Sarah Weddington
- Documentary progress during Jimmy Carter's reign, 1977-1981: Barbara Haugen, editor; from the Office of Sarah Weddington, Assistant President, The White House (1981)
References
Resources
- Wedding Center
- LawyerCrossing: Roe v Wade
- Super Lawyer: Roe v Wade
- Sarah talks about Roe v Wade's experience on YouTube
- Sarah Weddington clip on YouTube
- Royale, Rosette. "Roe v. Wade: The past, present and future". Real Change . Retrieved February 9 2013 .
- Mirk, Sarah (January 22, 2013). "Interviews of Sexual Politics With Lawyers Arguing about Roe v. Wade". Portland Mercury . Retrieved February 9 2013 .
- "Audio Ribbon Oral Argument: Roe v. Wade". C-SPAN. September 9, 1993 . Retrieved February 9 2013 .
- Texas Women's University. TWU Universal Search. 2012. Web. 12 February. 2012.
- Weddington, Sarah Ragle. Guide for women's resources. Office of Sarah Weddington, 1980. Print.
- Weddington, Sarah Ragle. A selection question. Penguin Books, 1993. Print.
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