TY - JOUR T1 - Q&A with Sarah Weddington, Annual Meeting keynote speaker and abortion rights trailblazer: ‘In many ways, attitudes toward abortion have not changed.’ JF - The Nation's Health JO - Nations Health SP - 8 LP - 8 VL - 43 IS - 8 AU - Charlotte Tucker Y1 - 2013/10/01 UR - http://www.thenationshealth.org/content/43/8/8.abstract N2 - The clerk of the Supreme Court does not record the ages of the attorneys who argue before the court, but the general consensus holds that Sarah Weddington, JD, is likely the youngest person to have done so. In December 1971, Weddington was 26 when she argued in Roe v. Wade that women have a constitutional right to abortion, and in 1973 the court agreed. It was a time when some college health centers required women seeking contraception to certify that they were within six weeks of marriage, a time when many women left the country seeking safe abortions, a time when there was not even a women’s restroom in the Supreme Court’s attorney lounge. Times have changed, but women’s rights advocates find themselves again facing challenges to ensuring that women have safe, legal access to reproductive care. Weddington, who has served as a state legislator in Texas as well as a professor, wrote a book about her experience, “A Question of Choice,” in 1993, which was updated in 2013 for the 40th anniversary of the case. Weddington now heads the Weddington Center, which focuses on women in leadership. She will be a keynote speaker at the opening session of APHA’s 141st Annual Meeting in Boston in November. She talked with The Nation’s Health about the ongoing fight to protect women’s health. ER -