dies Norma McCorvey, who was Jane Roe in the 1973 case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion in the U.S., died of heart failure, her biographer said. She was 69. The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday ...

The “Jane Roe” in Roe v. Wade was Texas resident Norma McCorvey, who became pregnant in 1970, was banned from having an abortion unless her life was in danger, per Texas law. McCorvey sued ...

Wade apparently renounced her renunciation of ... A central argument for abortion liberalization before and since Roe has been that 5,000 to 10,000 women were dying annually from illegal abortions.

Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that guaranteed an American’s right to abortion nationwide, has been overturned as of June 2022. The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to overturn the ...

Jane Roe was a pseudonym for Norma McCorvey, an unwed woman who in 1969 ... Friday's Supreme Court ruling overturned Roe v. Wade, effectively giving individual states the authority to decide ...

The case of Roe v Wade was brought to the Supreme Court because lawyers for Norma McCorvey – the woman who brought the case – believed that a local district attorney was acting unconstitutionally.

This article was originally published as part of our 2023 project Roe, 50 Years Later, a collection of stories marking what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. After the Supreme ...

American abortion law owes much of its present form to the case of Roe v Wade in 1973. In Roe v Wade the Supreme Court held that a pregnant woman has a constitutional right, under the Fourteenth ...