Posted on 02/18/2017 10:37:57 AM PST by bgill
Norma McCorvey, the Jane Roe of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, died Saturday outside Houston at age 69, The Washington Post reports.
McCorvey was 22 when she sought a way out for an unwanted pregnancy, becoming Jane Roe, the pseudonymous plaintiff of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade that established a constitutional right to an abortion.
She died at an assisted-living facility in Katy due to a heart ailment, journalist Joshua Prager, who is working on a book about the case, confirmed her death to The Post.
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It was the SC and that evil lawyer Sarah Weddington.
I’d put almost all the blame on her- She could have done the right thing and said no
I wonder what the Founders would think to hear the Court could “establish” any right.
What an awfully horrible legacy she left behind. Beyond 50 million babies ruthlessly slaughtered. I know she repented, but it’s too hard to comprehend the vastness and wide horror of what she got involved in.
She was a born-again Christian - she is in a much better place, actually she is in the best place!
I understood that she was actually not pregnant.
Rest in peace Norma.
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