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That morning, though, sitting in Dallas traffic, Coffee didn’t know any of that. All she knew was that her years of toiling on the case had paid off. “It’s a bittersweet thing for me,” she said. “Because I’m glad I got to do what I did, but it bothers me, really, to see how it’s ending up.”Growing up in Dallas in the 1950s, Linda Coffee knew only that she wanted to “do something important” with her life, she said, and that she might have to push the status quo a bit to do so.
Coffee later told a newspaper that Hughes served “as a living example [that] there are no limitations except those you impose on yourself.” Hughes had worked as a police officer, served in the Texas House of Representatives and was the first female state district judge. At the age of 65, she became the first woman appointed as a federal judge in Texas.
But she didn’t yet see a clear avenue to bring a legal challenge to Texas’ total ban, until an old friend, who was also a lawyer, brought her a case involving a gay man arrested for having sex in a public restroom.Coffee and Henry McCluskey grew up in the same Baptist church community and went to high school together before both becoming lawyers in Dallas in the early 70s. While Coffee battled gender discrimination, McCluskey took on discrimination of a different ilk.
Their case stood on the shoulders of Griswold v. Connecticut, a landmark 1965 ruling on contraception access that established the constitutional right to privacy. Once she had the argument, though, she needed a plaintiff — a pregnant woman who wanted an abortion and was willing to bring a lawsuit to get one. Once again, her friendship with McCluskey paid off. Through his work in adoption law, he met a young pregnant woman named Norma McCorvey.
“Would you consider being co-counsel in the event that a suit is actually filed,” she wrote. “I have always found that it is a great deal more fun to work with someone on a law suit of this nature.” In 1967, Weddington had gone to Mexico with her husband to get an abortion that she could not access in Texas. And though she wasn’t as out as her friend McCluskey, Coffee was a lesbian.When Coffee paid the $15 to file the original lawsuit on March 3, 1970, they were hopeful that it might make some change, but she said she had no idea the case would go as far as it did.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
She didn't mean abortion up to birth like the democrats keep pushing. Even progressive France limits up to 14 weeks.
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Texas was once such a wonderful place before Republican dominated Conservatives saved the state!
Imagine being guilty for the deaths of 50 million innocent babies.
Sarah Weddington.
60 million killed...
If the state can force u to have a baby: then let’s force people to wear masks 😷.
haha cope
Let’s be clear, Roe was overturned by 6 right wing extremist judges, 3 of whom were appointed by a president who tried to overthrow the govt by violent coup. AND their legal reasoning amounts to “because we can”.
Good. For women in Gen X like me, the invisible generation, we grew up encouraged by anyone told to have an abortion or be a welfare mom. That was a lie & I never had a choice once I went to planned parenthood: it's the abortion mill like cows to a slaughter.
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