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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 03:52 PM
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Question about Roe vs. Wade -- just historical curiosity
Was Wade the pro- or anti-choice side?
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DelawareValleyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 03:54 PM
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1. Anti
Edited on Thu Jan-20-05 03:57 PM by DelawareValleyDem
He was District Attorney of Dallas

Useless trivia: He would have been the prosecutor in Lee Harvey Oswald's expected trial
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tx_dem41 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 03:54 PM
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2. Wade was the DA of Dallas county...
He was the anti-choice side.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 03:55 PM
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3. Thank you people (nt)
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Beer Snob-50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 03:55 PM
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4. roe v wade...
wasn't that the law about the best way for people to cross a river. I think it just shows how government tries to get into our lives. telling us how to cross a river!!!
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patcox2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 03:56 PM
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5. I beleive Wade was the Texas attorney general.
Edited on Thu Jan-20-05 03:58 PM by patcox2
Roe was the psuedonym of the woman who wanted an abortion and sued to have the texas statute making abortion illegal struck down. Wade would have been the public official, probably texas attorney general, defending the constitutionality of laws prohibting abortions.

Roe is one of the traditional fake names used in legal proceedings to protect someone's anonymity, John Doe, Richard Roe, Mary Roe.

On edit, I stand corrected. Strange state, texas, apparently they leave it to the DA in the county where the suit was filed to defend constitutional attacks on state statutes, most states let the state AG do it.
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tx_dem41 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 03:57 PM
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6. Wade was DA of Dallas County.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wade
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