Word: weddington
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story of Moses is pure baloney, as are most of the stories in the Bible. It is incredible that in this day such stories are still being fed to innocent children. PAUL H. BARLOW Weddington...
...Choice For Women clinic. On Thursday she announced that she had been baptized in a swimming pool by none other than Flip Benham, head of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue. She said she would be an Operation Rescue volunteer, "serving the Lord and helping women save babies." Said Sarah Weddington, one of the lawyers who recruited McCorvey and took Roe v. Wade to the Supreme Court: "When I first heard about it, I had to sit down...
...Weddington should not have been so stunned. McCorvey was always a Roe of convenience. Weddington and then partner Linda Coffee had already planned a legal challenge to the nation's abortion laws and were trolling for a plaintiff when, in 1970, they met the ex-carnival barker who told of having been gang-raped and being unable to end her pregnancy because of Texas law. McCorvey always resented the fact that Roe was resolved too late for her to abort--she gave up the child--and that she was so far out of the loop that she learned...
Many antiabortionists certainly hope McCorvey's conversion is, in the words of Bill Price, president of Texans United For Life, "a defining point in the history of the battle against abortion." But as Weddington (who, tellingly, still refers to McCorvey as "Jane Roe") points out, Roe was a class action, and presumably not all of the people McCorvey represented have made the same journey as she. Moreover, if she does go on to work for Benham, McCorvey will undoubtedly be the first volunteer in Operation Rescue history to support a woman's right to a first-trimester abortion...
...matter how her political stances have evolved, though, McCorvey's contribution to the history of abortion rights America has already been made. No backyard baptism will change the decision of the Supreme Court. More importantly, even if McCorvey had been an Operation Rescue follower 20 years ago, Weddington and her colleagues would have found another Roe to represent their fight; no doubt, the same rights would have been...