Thirty-five years after she successfully argued Roe v. Wade at the U.S. Supreme Court, the story of Sarah Weddington's life has become the stuff of legend. Weddington was 26 when she appeared before ...

Sarah Weddington, a Texas lawyer who as a 26-year-old successfully argued the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade before the U.S. Supreme Court, died Sunday. She was 76. Susan Hays, Weddington's ...

Women have never had a problem being leaders, says Sarah Weddington. The problem was, and is, gaining leadership roles. Weddington is a lawyer, teacher and author best known for winning the 1973 Roe ...

Sarah Weddington has stopped counting how many times her life has been threatened in the past 39 years. Once, appearing in West Virginia some years ago, she had nine plain-clothed and 12 uniformed ...

Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Virginia Tech’s Owens Hall. The speech is open to the public. Thursday, beginning at 11:30 a.m., for Planned Parenthood’s Spring Luncheon at Charter Hall in the Roanoke City ...

Two important figures in modern Austin history – one, also in American history – have gone on ahead this week. Bruce Todd, mayor of Austin from 1991 to 1997 and a Travis County commissioner both ...

“I think it’s without question that pregnancy to a woman can completely disrupt her life.” In 1971, Sarah Weddington argued in front of the Supreme Court that pregnancy is a burden women ought to have ...