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Most people have never heard of Doe v. Bolton, the court case that was heard at the same time as Roe v. Wade. The plaintiff named within the case now is saying that her name was forged by her attorney and that she never intended to be used in this manner.

"In reality, as Sandra has since testified in court and before Congress, she never wanted an abortion at all. She went to an Atlanta legal-aid office in an attempt to divorce her husband and get her children back.[3] She claims that her lawyer, Margie Pitts Hames, tricked her into signing the affidavit that formed the basis of the plaintiff's charges in Doe. "I do not believe it is my signature on the affidavit, and Margie either forged my signature or slipped this document in with other papers while I was signing divorce papers. I never told Margie that I wanted an abortion. The facts stated in the affidavit in Doe v. Bolton are not true."[4]

According to her testimony, there is no record at Grady memorial hospital of her alleged application for an abortion. In fact, she says, she was so opposed to the idea of having an abortion that when her mother and Hames tried to make her have one she fled to Oklahoma until they promised that she could keep her child![5] But Hames managed to persuade her to return and appear in court as a plaintiff in the initial hearing of the Doe case:

The way she phrased it to me, it was a woman's liberation right. She said, "If you're working a job, and you're doing the same job as a man, don't you want to make the same salary? I said, "Well, of course." So that's what I thought the issue was about and everything. It's really hard for people to believe something like that. God knows my heart. He knows the truth. I really was that naive and that stupid.[6]"