She was a graduate of the prestigious Brown University and as a teen, she laid down feminist roots — she helped her mother campaign for Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who emerged victorious in Roe v.

“Ma” Ferguson. In 1970, a young Dallas lawyer, Sarah Weddington, filed suit on behalf of abortion-seeker Norma McCorvey, the case decided by the Supreme Court as Roe v. Wade in 1973. In the ...

Sarah Weddington, Jan Reid, Gary Cartwright—everyone wanted to be a part of the fun. “Cecile was a fabulous entertainer and a fabulous cook and a fabulous pie maker extraordinaire,” her ...

She was a fierce advocate for reproductive rights, and a powerful voice in the ongoing fight for safe and legal abortion access.

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At 16, she worked on a campaign to elect Sarah Weddington, the attorney who stood against Texas’ abortion ban in Roe v. Wade. In her 20s, she organized campaigns for labor unions and working ...

When she was 16, Richards joined her mother in campaigning for Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who argued Roe v. Wade, in her campaign for the Texas Legislature. She attended Brown University ...

Her name? Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who had argued Roe v. Wade before the U.S Supreme Court and won. “So my roots in the reproductive rights movement go back to being a teenager,” she told ...