Linda Coffee

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Linda Coffee as a high school student in 1961

Linda Nellene Coffee (born December 25, 1942)[1] is an American attorney and pro-choice activist. She is from Dallas, Texas. Coffee argued Roe v. Wade before the United States Supreme Court along with Sarah Weddington .[2] She argued for abortion and why it should be legal in the United States.[3] Coffee was a member of the Women's Equity Action League.

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  1. Prager, Joshua (19 January 2017). "Roe v. Wade's Secret Heroine Tells Her Story". Vanity Fair. : profile of Coffee
  2. Garrow, David J. (27 September 1992). "She Put the v in Roe v. Wade". New York Times. : review of A Question of Choice by Sarah Weddington
  3. Garrow, David J. (1998). Liberty and Sexuality : The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade (Updated paperback ed.). University of California Press. p. 1064. ISBN 9780520213029.