Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey, 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.
McCorvey in 1989
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protected a right to have an abortion. The decision struck down many abortion laws, and caused an ongoing abortion debate in the United States about whether, or to what extent, abortion should be legal, who should decide the legality of abortion, and what the role of moral and religious views in the political sphere should be. The decision also shaped debate concerning which methods the Supreme Court should use in constitutional adjudication.
George Frampton, law clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun during the 1971–72 term
Justice Harry Blackmun, the author of the majority opinion in Roe.
2021 Women's March, where many speakers bemoaned a looming threat to Roe.
Oral hearing for the German Constitutional Court's abortion decision, November 18, 1974