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24 Ιουν 2022 · McCorvey’s lawyers filed the case at a federal district courthouse in Dallas on March 3, 1970. Dubbed Roe v. Wade, the lawsuit anonymized McCorvey as “Jane Roe”; the second half of its name...
21 Μαΐ 2020 · At age 22 — mired in poverty, a survivor of childhood abuse, and pregnant against her will for the third time — she became Jane Roe: the anonymous plaintiff at the center of Roe v. Wade, an emblem of the cruelty of America’s abortion bans, whose case eventually enshrined the right to choose into the constitution.
22 Μαΐ 2020 · Around the age of 10, she says in AKA Jane Roe, she and another girl ran away from home, robbed a gas station, and checked into a hotel. A hotel maid caught them kissing, and McCorvey was...
Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey (September 22, 1947 – February 18, 2017), also known by the pseudonym " Jane Roe ", was the plaintiff in the landmark American legal case Roe v. Wade in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that individual state laws banning abortion were unconstitutional.
Her lawyers, Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, filed a lawsuit on her behalf in U.S. federal court against her local district attorney, Henry Wade, alleging that Texas's abortion laws were unconstitutional.
13 Οκτ 2022 · This April 26, 1989, file photo shows Norma McCorvey, left, known as "Jane Roe" in the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, with attorney Gloria Allred in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
25 Μαΐ 2024 · McCorvey signed on to the case, which was filed under the alias "Jane Roe" to protect her identity, while Henry Wade, the Dallas County district attorney, was named as the defendant representing the state of Texas.
