Margie Pitts Hames

Margie Pitts Hames (December 8, 1933 – July 19, 1994) was an Atlanta civil rights lawyer who argued the abortion rights case Doe v. Bolton before the U.S. Supreme Court. Hames was born in Milton, Tennessee to a poor rural family. As a schoolgirl, Hames encountered a schoolteacher who stated that the only acceptable time for an abortion was “when a black man raped a white woman." In 1951, Hames graduated from Kittrell High School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Margie Pitts Hames

Margie Pitts Hames (December 8, 1933 – July 19, 1994) was an Atlanta civil rights lawyer who argued the abortion rights case Doe v. Bolton before the U.S. Supreme Court. Hames was born in Milton, Tennessee to a poor rural family. As a schoolgirl, Hames encountered a schoolteacher who stated that the only acceptable time for an abortion was “when a black man raped a white woman." In 1951, Hames graduated from Kittrell High School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.