In a case being closely watched by conservatives, the Supreme Court plans to hear a suit to reverse the Doe vs. Bolton abortion decision in 1973.

Sandra Cano, the anonymous Doe and one of the women who sued for a legalized abortion, has argued that she never wanted an abortion. Instead, Ms. Cano said she was pushed into it by an aggressive American Civil Liberties Union attorney when she was a 22-year-old victim of an abusive husband with her three children in foster care.
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In her affidavit to the U.S. District Court in New Jersey, Ms. Cano said she approached a legal aid office in Atlanta for help in regaining custody of her children and a divorce from her husband. She said she was taken advantage of by an “aggressive self-serving attorney, Margie Pitts Hames, the legal-aid attorney.”

Ms. Cano said she never signed an affidavit that said she did not want or could not care for another baby. The affidavit also raised the possibility that she might commit suicide.

“I am 99 percent certain that I did not sign this affidavit,”

Ms. Cano said. “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.”

Ms. Cano said her mother and the legal aid attorney tried to force her to have an abortion. She said she fled to Oklahoma and returned when she was assured that she would not have to undergo an abortion. Ms. Cano said she went to court where she was told by her attorney not to speak.

Years after the Supreme Court decision, Ms. Cano sued to open up her records, a move opposed by Ms. Pitts Hames. The records showed that Ms. Cano had applied for abortion, was rejected and then sued the state of Georgia, all of which she said was a lie.
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