Shelley Lynn Thornton
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Shelley Lynn Thornton is the biological daughter of Norma McCorvey. Also referred to as the "Roe baby", Thornton was the child resulting from the pregnancy at the center of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court
Thornton's high school yearbook photo from 1988
Roe v. Wade
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Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected the right of pregnant women to choose to have
Shelley Lynn Thornton
…McCorvey. Also referred to as the "Roe baby", Thornton was the child resulting from the pregnancy at the center of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. She was not aware of her relationship to the court case until 1989 when she was 19 years old, and her identity was not publicly known until 2021…
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