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Norma L. McCorvey (born September 22, 1947 in Simmesport, Louisiana) is best known as "Jane Roe" in the landmark Roe v. Wade lawsuit in which a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling recognized abortion as a constitutional right, overturning individual states' laws against abortion. McCorvey now claims she became the pawn of two young and ambitious lawyers (including Sarah Weddington) who were looking for a plaintiff whom they could use to challenge the Texas state law prohibiting abortion. At the time of the case, she claimed her pregnancy was the result of a rape, but she now says this was not true. The case took three years to reach the United States Supreme Court. By that time, she was obviously no longer pregnant with that child. Since abortion was illegal, she had given birth and she had given up the child for adoption. The child should be 35 years old now, but has not been identified. McCorvey converted to Christianity in 1995, and on August 10 of that year, she announced that she had become an advocate of the pro-life movement (specifically, "Operation Rescue"), fighting to make abortion illegal. In 2005, she petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn the 1973 decision, arguing that the case should be heard again in light of evidence that the procedure may harm women, but this petition was denied. In 1998, she released a statement that affirmed her entrance into the Roman Catholic Church, and she has been confirmed into the Church as a full member. She is the author of
Category:1947 births|McCorvey, Norma Category:1970 births|McCorvey, Baby Girl Category:Abortion|McC Category:Humanitarians|McCorvey, Norma Category:Roman Catholic activists|McCorvey, Norma Category:Pro-life celebrities|McCorvey, Norma This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Norma McCorvey".
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