
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 3, 1995                   TAG: 9503040050
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ATTORNEY TO SPEAK

Sarah Weddington, the attorney who argued the winning side of the Roe v. Wade abortion-rights case before the Supreme Court, will speak at Hollins College on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Babcock Auditorium, Dana Science Building.

The title of her presentation will be ``Some Women Are Born Leaders,'' in honor of Women's History Month.

From 1978 to 1981, Weddington was assistant to the President of the United States. She was designated by President Carter to lead White House efforts to extend the time for ratification of the national Equal Rights Amendment and to implement other programs to assist the equal treatment of women in the military, in securing business loans and in social programs.

Weddington was awarded the Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Margaret Sanger Award for her work on the Roe v. Wade case. She has also been named one of the ``Outstanding American Leaders'' by Time magazine and was selected as one of 10 ``Outstanding Women in America'' in 1979.

Weddington is now a writer, lecturer and teacher and serves as senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin and in the summer as distinguished lecturer at Texas Women's University.

by CNB