“Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, they needed a plaintiff. I was their pawn. I was their vehicle to get Roe v. Wade to the Supreme Court.”

About Norma McCorvey

Activist • American

Norma McCorvey was the American plaintiff, under the legal pseudonym "Jane Roe," in the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade which legalized abortion in the United States in 1973. Initially an anonymous figure, she...