
In Conversation: The story of Jane Roe, her baby, and abortion in America
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Rovey Wade v. Texas Supreme Court
Norma jane roe wanted to have an abortion, but of course, abortion was not legal in texas. A lawyer named linda coffee happened to know a man named henry mc clusky who knew the adoption lawyer brokering her children's adoptions. Norma filed suit on behalf of their anonymous plaintiff and it went to the supreme court. The case then went to the Supreme Court for two years before it was decided that norma could get an abortion.
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