Hundreds of mourners took to social media Sunday to remember the life of Sarah Weddington, a key figure and pioneer in women’s abortion rights, who died in...
Susan Hays, Weddington’s mentee and former student, said on Twitter that Weddington inspired her to be a lawyer and that they often talked about politics and service.
“Public schools don’t teach kids what they don’t have or didn’t have but for the work of people like Sarah,” Hays said. “Her lessons opened my eye to just how tenuous my liberty and autonomy as a human being were and are.” In a tweet thread, Hays said Weddington worked on the Roe vs. Wade case because law firms were reluctant to hire women in the 1970s.
Hays said that meant Weddington had “lots of time for good trouble,” including a run for office and becoming the first woman from Travis County elected to the Texas Legislature., the only five women in the Legislature in a post-Sharpstown year of reform. SCOTUS issued Roe about the time she started her term. The world was changing for women.
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