Roy Lucas
Person
1941 –
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Who is Roy Lucas?
Roy Lucas was an American lawyer and abortion rights activist, known for drafting a law review that laid the theoretical background behind the principles articulated in Roe v. Wade.
Lucas established the James Madison Constitutional Law Institute to work for women's abortion rights, and was instrumental in numerous abortion rights cases in the 1960s and 1970s, including Roe v. Wade. After 1986, he focused primarily on art, painting and writing about art.
He died of a heart attack in November, 2003.
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- Born
- Nov 27, 1941
- Education
- New York University School of Law
- Died
- Apr 26, 2024
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on July 23, 2013
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