The Chronicle reports and the Texas Lawyer reports here on the plaintiff in the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion case seeking a Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) order allowing her to return to the courtroom in the hope of overturning the U.S. Supreme Court‘s decision that made the procedure legal. After losing in the District Court on her motion, the plaintiff has appealed that denial to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has set oral argument on the matter for March 2.
In an ironic twist, the Chronicle also runs a front page story today about twin baby girls born Feb. 11 in Houston, one of whom weighed 2.8 pounds and the other 12 ounces at birth. Houston’s fabulous Texas Children’s Hospital in the Texas Medical Center has long been one of the nation’s leader’s in the care of premature babies.