NORMA MCCORVEY

(Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey)


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Norma McCorvey
Norma McCorvey
  • Born: September 22, 1947
  • Died: February 18, 2017
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Director, Crossing Over Ministry, Formerly Roe No More Ministry, Inc.

Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey, better known by the generic legal pseudonym "Jane Roe", was the plaintiff in the landmark American legal case Roe v. Wade in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that individual state laws banning abortion were unconstitutional.