Norma McCorvey, who was Jane Roe in the 1973 case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion in the U.S., died of heart failure, her biographer said. She was 69.
The brutal death of Mahsa Amini in Iran and the overturning of Roe vs Wade red-flag insidious issues relating to religious patriarchy and violations of women’s rights.
Norma McCorvey is the real name of the woman many Americans now know as the Roe in Roe v. Wade. Her story shows the ways class, religion and money shape abortion politics in the United States.