Shelley Lynn Thornton, now 51, is the daughter of Norma McCorvey, who was Jane Roe in the landmark Supreme Court case that secured the legal right to abortion For the first time, the child of Jane ...

Not Eliminate It MAGA’s Crisis of Confidence in America The Mainstream Media Don’t Need ‘Media Solidarity’ GQ columnist Laura Bassett uses the news about Norma McCorvey — that the Jane ...

1971 – The case is filed by Norma McCorvey, known in court documents as Jane Roe, against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County, who enforced a Texas law that prohibited abortion ...

In 1969, a 25-year-old single woman, Norma McCorvey using the pseudonym “Jane Roe”, challenged the criminal abortion laws in Texas. The state forbade abortion and called it unconstitutional ...