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Weddington, Sarah A Question of Choice: By the Lawyer Who Won Roe V. Wade
Penguin Group USA 1993 0140177981 / 9780140177985 Trade Paperback Near-Fine Signed by Author
A photo of this book is available. SIGNED / AUTOGRAPHED by author in book front: " To Sally, Enjoyed dinner and the chance to visit! I loved being part of this program your team devised. Sarah 7-27-99". Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. Other than author's dedication, NO writing or tears. 320 pages. Illustrated with photos. Annotation On the 20th anniversary of the momentous Roe v. Wade decision, here is the engrossing story of the case by the attorney who successfully argued it in the Supreme Court--now with a new chapter on the current situation.
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Weddington, Sarah A Question of Choice: The Lawyer Who Won Roe v. Wade
Putnam 1992 0399137904 / 9780399137907 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. 306 pages. Illustrated with photos. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - From the Publisher There is no more politically and emotionally charged Supreme Court decision than Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that recognized the right of privacy and allowed women legal medical abortions. Today, as that decision and the choice it protects are under serious attack, the lawyer who won the case comes forth to tell her story. Sarah Weddington, daughter of a minister, grew up in small West Texas towns and graduated from a Methodist college. Her decision to attend law school was not her first - and certainly not her last - act of determination and fortitude. In the late sixties, few lawyers were women, but this was also a time of burgeoning social change. Weddington takes us back to that era and paints a vivid picture of her challenge to the Texas anti-abortion laws - in the state legislature as well as the courts - and her success at the Supreme Court. Her account of what Americans won in 1973 serves as a dramatic backdrop to the narrative of what has been lost in recent years. Her story of the gathering storm of antagonism to Roe makes fascinating political reading, as it explains the political coalitions that brought Ronald Reagan and George Bush into power, and puts into a new context the recent backlash against women's rights. The coming years will in all likelihood mark the test of Roe v. Wade, and the constitutional right of choice. But the issue will not die; the background will move from the courtroom to the ballot box. A Question of Choice is a rallying cry for all Americans who believe in choice, and provides shrewd political strategies to activate the reader. Ultimately, this book reaffirms faith in the American Constitution, which never allows one group's views to be written in stone. From The Critics Library Journal Starting with her years at the University of Texas Law School at Austin, Weddington, the attorney who won Roe v. Wade , traces the history of her involvement with this momentous Supreme Court case and its aftermath. She laments the ground that sometimes complacent pro-choice activists have lost since Roe v. Wade on issues like the 1989 Webster v. Reproductive Health Services decision and the 1991 Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings, and she stresses the urgent need to regain this ground from an unceasingly pro-life Supreme Court. Although her writing is less dramatic and less accessible to the general reader than Marian Faux's Roe v. Wade ( LJ 6/1/88), Weddington is generally direct and always sincere, and she offers some different perspectives on certain aspects of the case that differs from the Faux book. Recommended for all libraries. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/92.-- Linda Knaack, Univ. of Lowell Libs., Mass. BookList This description of the background and legal significance of the 1973 Supreme Court decision, by the Texas attorney who twice argued Jane Roe's case before the high court, provides a sense of how "Roe" happened that is at once more personal and more knowledgeable than most popular summaries. Weddington, who was just 27 when she argued "Roe" (her first contested case) before the nation's highest court, shares credit for the landmark decision with the women of Austin's abortion information center, and with literally dozens of attorneys, researchers, law professors, and activists who helped to marshal the facts and funding to make "Roe" v. "Wade "a reality. Since 1973, Weddington has devoted much of her time to defending "Roe" against the organized backlash it has generated. The final third of "Choice" addresses that battle, and offers Weddington's plan of action for "those who are willing to share the responsibility of protecting choice," to whom her book is dedicated. A sound addition to legal history and current affairs collections.
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