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Lancaster senior Issaiah McCorvey didn’t know much about cross country or track and field before high school. “Honestly, I ...
Utah's abortion trigger law remains blocked by court injunctions until at least 2026, while legality has been decided in most ...
Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in the case that made abortion legal, struggled with her role. Her personal papers offer insight into her life, her thinking — and her continued relevance.
Norma McCorvey, the Jane Roe at the center of Roe v. Wade, was an imperfect plaintiff. When she undertook Roe as a young single woman in Dallas, she gave no thought to the fight for reproductive ...
"Jane Roe," whose real name was Norma McCorvey, was an advocate for abortion rights, until she switched sides in the 1990s. AP/J. Scott Applewhite The “Jane Roe” who pursued the landmark Roe v.
Attorney Gloria Allred (left) and Norma McCorvey (right), the anonymous plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, during a pro-choice rally in Burbank, California, on July 4, 1989 Photo by Bob Riha, Jr. / Getty ...
Norma McCorvey (left), the plaintiff in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case, with her attorney, Gloria Allred, outside the Supreme Court in April 1989, when the court heard arguments in a case that could ...
A journalist pieces together the messy lives of Norma McCorvey, her family, and other central figures from the case. When Norma McCorvey, using the alias “Jane Roe,” sued Dallas district ...
Norma McCorvey did not set out to be a hero. In 1970, she contacted a lawyer named Henry McCluskey. She was pregnant for the third time, by a man she’d met playing pool, and didn’t want to be.
Thornton’s identity as the daughter of “Jane Roe,” or Norma McCorvey, was revealed last month in an article in the Atlantic. The 1973 Supreme Court ruling made abortion a federally protected ...
Last weekend, FX premiered AKA Jane Roe, a documentary on Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade. Backers of the film touted its most explosive revelation—that McCorvey, Jane Roe herself ...
Then she laughs, a cross between a chuckle and a young girl’s giggle. The woman is Norma McCorvey. The documentary, now streaming on Hulu, is called aka Jane Roe, and it tells the story of the ...