Roy Lucas (lawyer)

Roy Lucas (born November 27, 1941 – November 2003) 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.