TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — The moment he heard Roe v. Wade was no longer the law of the land, Tarpon Springs resident John Heagney couldn’t help but think of his sister Mary.
Born with a severe intellectual disability, she was an in-patient at G. Pierce Wood state mental hospital in Arcadia around 1990 when a Catholic doctor at the hospital took her off birth control.
The family only learned this when the hospital told them that Mary, then 42, was pregnant.
