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   On 02/19/2017 05:28 AM, Left Wing News wrote:   
   > She was represented under a pseudonym in the Roe v Wade case, in what   
   > ended up being a landmark and controversial Supreme Court judgement   
   > in 1973.   
   >   
   > Having turned to religion, McCorvey then said being part of the   
   > decision to legalise abortion "was the biggest mistake of my life".   
   >   
   > She also unsuccessfully petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn Roe   
   > v Wade.   
   >   
   > Her death, in a Texas care home, was confirmed to US media by a   
   > journalist who had been working on a book on the case.   
   >   
   > The ruling in January 1973 came after McCorvey, then a 25-year- old   
   > single woman under the pseudonym "Jane Roe", challenged the criminal   
   > abortion laws in Texas that ruled abortion was unconstitutional,   
   > except in cases where the mother's life was in danger.   
   >   
   > Henry Wade was the Texas attorney general who defended the anti-   
   > abortion law.   
   >   
   > McCorvey first filed the case in 1969 - she was pregnant with her   
   > third child and said she had been raped. But the case was rejected   
   > and she was forced to give birth.   
   >   
   > However, in 1973 her appeal made it to the US Supreme Court where, by   
   > a vote of seven to two, the justices ruled that the government lacked   
   > the power to prohibit abortions.   
   >   
   > 'Men making decisions about women's bodies'   
   >   
   > Roe v Wade explained   
   >   
   > The court's judgement was based on the decision that a woman's right   
   > to terminate her pregnancy came under the freedom of personal choice   
   > in family matters, as protected by the Constitution.   
   >   
   > McCorvey, having revealed her real name in the 1980s, went on to   
   > clarify that she had not been raped as she had earlier claimed. She   
   > had said so only to get permission for an abortion and speed up her   
   > case.   
   >   
   > By the time the legal challenges to her case were over, her daughter   
   > was two and had been given away for adoption.   
   >   
   > "I'm a simple woman with a ninth-grade education who wants women not   
   > to be harassed or condemned," she told the New York Times in 1994,   
   > before she went on to denounce abortion. "It's no glamorous thing to   
   > go through an abortion. I never had one, but I've worked in three   
   > clinics and I know."   
   >   
   > In an anti-abortion television advert broadcast earlier this decade,   
   > she said: "Abortion has eliminated 50 million innocent babies in the   
   > US alone since 1973. Abortion scars an untold number of post-abortive   
   > mothers, fathers, and families too."   
   >   
   > Before Roe v Wade, some states had already started to reform or   
   > repeal laws on abortion, but women seeking a termination had to do so   
   > illegally, at great expense, and often in unsafe conditions.   
   >   
   > One underground network run by women in Chicago said it performed   
   > some 12,000 abortions in the late 1960s and early 70s, before the   
   > court ruling was made.   
   >   
   > In more recent years, the issue has proven to be among the most   
   > divisive in US politics.   
   >   
   > http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39016181   
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