Plaintiff in Roe vs Wade Case by Mary Rourke and Emily Alpert Reyes

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Plaintiff in Roe vs Wade case
Writer: Mary Rourke and Emily Alpert Reyes
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1. Norma McCorvey said she would like nothing more than to see Roe vs Wade overturned.
2. Norma McCorvey died on Saturday, February 18, 2017.
3. Norma McCorvey died in an assisted living facility in Katy, Texas.
4. Norma McCorvey had 3 children.
5. Norma McCorvey met lawyers Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee in 1970.
6. The two attorneys were getting ready to fight the law that made it illegal to have an abortion in Texas except by a doctor’s orders to save a woman’s life.
7. The attorneys said the law violated the 9th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right to free choice and privacy.
8. Jane Roe is the alias Norma McCorvey used to fight law.
9. The lawsuit started in the Dallas District Court.
10. The Supreme Court on January 1973 decided that making abortion illegal, was unconstitional.
11. The Supreme Court decision was 7 to 2 making abortion illegal.
12. Norma McCorvey felt she was an unfit parent.
13. David Garrow said McCorvey was never a “poster child” of the movement because “poster people were supposed to look like suburban wives.”
14. David Garrow said “Liberty and Sexuality:The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe vs. Wade.”
15. Sarah Weddington was the attorney who argued in front of the judges.
16. District Attorney Henry Wade appealed the Dallas District Court decision to the Supreme Court.
17. Answers will vary
18. Norma McCorvey’s birth name is Norma Leah Nelson.
19. Norma McCorvey was born on September 22, 1947.
20. Norma McCorvey was born in Lettesworth, Louisiana.
21. Norma McCorvey’s father’s name was Olin.
22. Norma McCorvey’s mother’s name was Mary Mildred.
23. Norma McCorvey’s parents were divorced when she was 13 years old.
24. Norma McCorvey married when she was 16 years old.
25. Norma McCorvey’s husband’s name was Woody McCorvey.
26. Norma McCorvey’s first baby’s name is Melissa.
27. Norma McCorvey consulted on the movie “Roe vs Wade.”
28. Holly Hunter played Norma McCorvey in the movie “Roe vs Wade”
29. The abortion controversy hit McCorvey by receiving hate mail and trash on her lawn.
30. Rev. Philip Benham was nicknamed “Flipper.”
31. Rev. Philip Benham began to talk to McCorvey and changed her mind to be a speaker for an anti-abortion group.