The "Jane Roe" who pursued the landmark Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion in the 1970s was an unmarried 22-year-old woman named Norma McCorvey.

Journalist and playwright Paula Kamen first began researching Jane, the underground feminist collective founded in Hyde Park that helped people find safe abortions in the pre-Roe v. Wade years ...

AKA Jane Roe delights in those complications, but is content enough to present them without reconciling them with each other. “I am a good actress,” McCorvey brags in the documentary.

Norma McCorvey, the Jane Roe in 'Roe v. Wade,' said anti-abortion groups paid her to become pro-life in the upcoming doc 'AKA Jane Roe.' Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis/Getty Images ...

Jane Roe may have been the perfect plaintiff, but it would be impossible to be a perfect heroine of the pro-choice movement. “If a woman wants to get an abortion, fine,” she said with a little ...

Norma McCorvey, right, known as Jane Roe in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling, stands with a friend at an Operation Rescue rally in downtown Dallas, Jan. 22, 1997.

“AKA Jane Roe” is constructed like a mystery, building toward a previously unseen interview with the late Norma McCorvey – made famous by the abortion-rights case Roe v. Wade – that she ...

McCorvey, “Jane Roe” in Roe vs. Wade, who died at 69 from a heart ailment in 2017. She switched camps in the mid-1990s, when she embraced the anti-abortion movement of the evangelical pastor ...

When Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff in the landmark Roe v. Wade case, came out against abortion in 1995, it stunned the world and represented a huge symbolic victory for abortion ...

Roe refers to Jane Roe, the pseudonym in this case for the woman who originally sought the abortion: Norma McCorvey. For the latest installment of the NPR Politics Podcast Book Club, we ...

In FX’s first documentary “AKA Jane Roe,” which premieres on Friday, May 22, McCorvey tells filmmaker Nick Sweeney in a shocking “deathbed confession” filmed before her death in 2017 ...

news Politics ‘Jane Roe’ in her own words as America marks a half-century since landmark abortion ruling Norma McCorvey died in 2017 at age 69 after being involved on both sides of the ...