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Sarah Weddington, a Texas lawyer who at 26 successfully defended the historic Roe vs..Wade for the right to abort before the United States Supreme Court, died on Sunday.He was 76 years old.

Susan Hays, former Weddington and his colleague, said he died while sleeping Sunday at dawn at his home in Austin.Weddington had health problems for some time, and at the moment the cause of his death is unknown, Hays told The Associated Press.

Raised as daughter of a minister in the city of Abilene, in western Texas, Weddington attended the Law Faculty at the University of Texas.A couple of years after graduating, she and a former classmate, Linda Coffee, filed a collective claim on behalf of a pregnant woman to challenge a state law that prohibited most of the abortions.

The case of "Jane Roe", whose real name was Norma McCorvey, was initiated against HenryWade, Dallas County District Prosecutor, and eventually reached the Supreme Court.

Weddington presented his argument before the highest court twice, in December 1971 and in October 1972.The following year the Supreme Court legalized abortion throughout the country with a 7 -voting ruling in favor and 2 against.

Weddington's death occurred at a time when the highest court is wearing a case around Mississippi's prohibition to abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which is considered the most relevant challenge in years to the decision of Roevs..Wade.

While the Supreme Court examined that case in the 1970s, Weddington also run to represent Austin in the Texas House of Representatives.It was elected in 1972 and served as a state legislator for three periods, before becoming a general legal advisor of the Department of Federal Agriculture.Later she worked as an advisor to women's affairs for President Jimmy Carter.

Later Weddington wrote a book about the roe vs..Wade, dio conferencias y enseñó cursos en la Universidad de Texas en Austin y en la Universidad de la Mujer de Texas sobre liderazgo, derecho y discriminación de género.Remained active in the political and legal world until its last years.In 2019 he went to a ceremony to promulgation of a law of the State of New York to protect the right to abortion in case ROE vs..Wade sea revocada.

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