This year’s Dr. Lila C. Murphy ’52 Women and Leadership Lecture Series will feature Sarah Weddington, who, in 1973, successfully argued the Roe v. Wade case before the US Supreme Court, giving women the constitutional right to privacy and the right to choose an abortion. Today, legislators are using the ongoing health care debate as an opportunity to severely restrict women’s access to abortion, or to overturn the landmark ruling altogether. Through her unique lens, Weddington examines the current abortion debate and provides insight into what it all means.

The lecture will be held on Wednesday, October 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room (L.P. Young Student Center) and is free and open to the public.