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Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who won the Roe v. Wade case to legalize abortion, talks 39 years later about the case and the contraception debate that helped her win it. Her first person account explains why winning the case was so important to her and what her thoughts on the current debates regarding women's sexual health are. In 1973, Roe v. Wade, was a decision passed by the United States Supreme Court regarding abortion. The Court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion. Women could choose abortion in earlier months of pregnancy without legal restriction, and with restrictions in later months, based on that right to privacy.