Thank You, Sarah Weddington
Her role in the lawsuit started in a garage in Austin. A group of her friends were raising money for the abortion “referral project” operating among UT students. Weddington didn’t work there, but she started to do legal research for them. “Doctors could be prosecuted; and the volunteers at the referral project didn’t know whether they could get into legal trouble by referring women for safe abortion,” she wrote.
So Weddington joined the fight. And she knew what she defended: Weddington had an abortion in 1967 in a doctor’s office in Piedra Negras, across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas. Abortion was obviously illegal in Texas and Mexico, but Weddington suspected bribes kept the illegal operation in business in Mexico. No matter, her D&C was successful. She went back to law school at UT Austin.The fact that a person might have to carry a pregnancy to term when they don’t want to? It is torture.
It’s taken me this long to write a tribute to a woman who made my life possible because I can’t believe she lived long enough to see the right to abortion reach such a crisis point. Arguingwas her career high point . She was only 26! She didn’t get her flowers nearly enough while alive. America loves to valorize the work of one person and forget about the behind the scenes, the foot soldiers. But we never really valorized her work, especially outside of Texas.
“I was very proud of the fact that we won,” Coffee told Jezebel of their work. “It’s sad that I think Roe v. Wade could be overturned. I counted there were five members of the Supreme Court that seemed to be leaning toward changing the law. I think it’s really what it is there now is almost chaos.”
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