Feminist lawyer Sarah Weddington was the youngest person ever to argue a case before the Supreme Court at age 26. Her efforts saw the pro-abortion Jane Roe argument win the landmark Roe v. Wade case in 1973. Early Sunday morning, as the Supreme Court is reconsidering the details of U.S. abortion law, the lawyer passed away in her sleep after “a series of health issues,” a former student announced. She was 76. The pair of feminist lawyers had been looking for a client to challenge state laws restricting legal abortions to mothers whose lives were endangered by carrying their baby to full term. Weddington, in her book about Roe v. Wade, said that in 1967 during her third year of law school, she had traveled to Mexico herself to access an abortion, which was illegal in the United States at the time. She and Coffee took on the case for “Jane …
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