When Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff in the landmark Roe v. Wade case, came out against abortion in 1995, it stunned the world and represented a huge symbolic victory for abortion opponents: ...
Norma McCorvey, better known by her pseudonym Jane Roe, drops a bombshell near the end of the new FX documentary about her life. In what she calls her “deathbed confession,” McCorvey admits that ...
Three years after her death in 2017, Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in the landmark abortion-rights case Roe vs. Wade, is still making headlines. This time it's for her self-described "deathbed ...
EDITORIAL: We still don’t know, as the producers of AKA Jane Roe gave her very little room to tell her story. Norma McCorvey, the former Roe of Roe v.Wade, holds up a copy of her petition on the steps ...
Norma McCorvey, the once-anonymous “Jane Roe” in the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, revealed she only switched sides to oppose abortion rights because she was being paid by anti-abortion ...
DALLAS — Norma McCorvey, whose legal challenge under the pseudonym “Jane Roe” led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision that legalized abortion but who later became an outspoken opponent of ...
The law is written in words, and words are not the same thing as people. In the 1973 landmark lawsuit Roe v. Wade, for example, the plaintiff “Jane Roe” was not the same person as Norma McCorvey. The ...