Roe v. Wade lawyer, Spurgeon LeRoy Lucas, Esq.

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Meet the Roe v. Wade lawyer, Spurgeon LeRoy Lucas, Esq.

Meet the Roe v. Wade lawyer, Spurgeon LeRoy Lucas, Esq.

Spurgeon Leroy Lucas, Esq. with his client Patricia Baird-Windle, owner of Aware Woman abortion clinic.

Spurgeon LeRoy Lucas, Esq. (AKA Roy Lucas, Esq. DC # 153957) is the architect of the "right to privacy" legal argument used to win the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the U.S.

Lucas, 57, has championed abortion rights since penning an article for the June 1968 issue of the North Carolina Law Review in which he laid out the blueprint for legalizing abortion. Four years later, when Roe v. Wade came before the Supreme Court, Lucas filed the main brief. Lucas continued practicing law until 1985, when he took an 11-year hiatus to visit 200 of the country's natural parks and paint landscape scenes.

"If you know the history from 1967 to 1971, Roy Lucas has done more than any lawyer in American history to make abortion rights available, but the number of people who know that could fit in a good-sized classroom," said David Garrow, Emory University professor on reproductive law. "It's not surprising that there would remain a hunger or an appetite."

Spurgeon LeRoy Lucas was born the son of a preacher. What dreams his preacher father must have had -- assuming he named his son after that great English preacher, Charles Spurgeon. And, if so, how disappointed his father must be now that his son was part of a lawsuit that has resulted in 36 million plus preborn babies being killed in this country. Many people are praying for Spurgeon LeRoy Lucas that his spiritual eyes will be opened to the Truth before it is too late.

Lucas has survived a two-year bout with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. His health is still fragile however. He has to limit the length of meetings and still has occasional hospital stays.

Spurgeon LeRoy Lucas is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, # 153967. Most recently, he is the pro hac vice (out of state) lawyer for the abortion industry in four federal lawsuits in Florida. They are:
1) Raney v Aware Woman et al, 97-1197-CIV-ORL-19B
2) Ocala Women's Center et al v City of Ocala et al, 98-371-CIV-OC-10C
3) Aware Woman et al v Raney et al, 99-05-CIV-ORL-19C
4) Manhattan Magnolia Corp et al v Unterburger et al, 99-8164-CIV-HURLEY

Lucas has another lawsuit in the works, a class action suit against Neal Horsley, the Georgia creator of the "Nuremberg Files" website that listed some 200 abortion doctors and asked visitors to send photos, videotapes, and any personal information about the doctors. Horsley wanted the information, the site said, "in anticipation that one day we may be able to hold (abortion doctors) on trial for crimes against humanity" as was done with the Nazi doctors after WWII.

The site has been inaccessible since early February 1999, when an Oregon jury ordered a dozen defendants associated with the site -- but not Horsley -- to pay Planned Parenthood and other plaintiffs more than $100 million in damages. The jury found that the site amounted to a death threat against abortion doctors, their associates and families. The defendants plan to appeal.

Suing a web site, seeking injunctions against the utterance of certain words and requiring disclaimers on protesters' signs may test the First Amendment, but Lucas says that even though his approach would limit protester's activities, he is not out to curb free speech.

Sourced in part from articles published in the Ocala Star-Banner on Wednesday, March 17, 1999. Click here for articles.