NORMA MCCORVEY

Women's marches demanding the protection of abortion rights drew thousands of people to the streets across the country on Sunday.

On this day in history, Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court made its decision in the historic abortion regulation court case — Roe v. Wade. The 7-2 ruling stood for nearly 50 years.

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 US.

Shelley Lynn Thornton, the woman whose conception sparked the 1973 landmark case, told ABC News that she's "concerned" for what lies ahead.

The fight over the constitutional right to an abortion reached its zenith, with the Supreme Court overturning Roe.

The attorney general said federal law protects people who take the FDA-approved pregnancy-termination pill, or who cross state lines to get a legal abortion.

Corporations are scrambling to adjust policies after the Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v. Wade.

Read the final decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, written by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Emotional advocates massed at the Supreme Court after it struck down Roe v. Wade, ending longstanding constitutional abortion protections.

Thirteen states have "trigger bans" in place to criminalize abortion if Roe v. Wade falls. Several other states are likely to enact similar laws.

The decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health was the most anticipated of the court’s term, with political tension surrounding the fight over abortion erupting in May with the leak of a draft opinion indicating a majority of justices intended to end the long-standing precedent.

Dr. Thomas Dobbs has never gotten involved in political fights over reproductive health, but his name has become shorthand for a legal case that could end abortion rights in the United States.

Following San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone's decision, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) questioned why those who support the death penalty -- which also is at odds with church teaching -- aren't also denied Communion.

If signed into law, Oklahoma would effectively ban all abortions in the state.

Polls show the American people strongly oppose criminalizing abortion and threatening doctors and women with jail time. But despite the GOP's assurances, it'll be a topic that's very difficult to avoid.

Casey said he would vote yes on the Women's Health Protection Act, a dramatic shift for one of the few remaining Democrats in Congress who has held relatively conservative views on abortion rights.

Justice Clarence Thomas said Friday that the judiciary is threatened if people are unwilling to “live with outcomes we don’t agree with” and that recent events at the Supreme Court might be “one symptom of that.”

The fight over the constitutional right to an abortion will reach its zenith in the coming weeks.

The fight over the constitutional right to an abortion will reach its zenith in the coming weeks.

Newsy's sits down with attorney Gloria Allred, who defended Norma McCorvey, otherwise known as Jane Roe, in the 1973 court case Roe v. Wade.

A leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision suggests the country’s highest court could be poised overturn Roe v.

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Sarah Weddington, a Texas lawyer who at 26-year-old successfully argued the landmark abortion rights case Roe v.

Supreme Court justices considering a major abortion case Wednesday will hear from just three lawyers: one representing the state of Mississippi, another representing Mississippi’s only abortion clinic and the last representing the Biden administration.

Melissa Mills, the oldest daughter of Norma McCorvey — known as "Jane Roe" — spoke to Jan Crawford for her first television interview for "CBS Mornings."

Now a 51-year-old mother of three, Shelley Lynn Thornton is speaking out for the first time.

Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, never had the abortion she was seeking. She gave her baby girl up for adoption, and now that baby is an adult. After decades of keeping her identity a secret, Jane Roe’s child has chosen to talk about her life.

Better known as Jane Roe, McCorvey's story was at the center of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide. Better known as Jane Roe, her story was at the center of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide. At first she was an abortion rights advocate, but, in a twist, she became a born-again Christian in 1995 and switched sides. As for her feelings on abortion, McCorvey says: If a young woman wants to have an abortion, fine. That led her to become the anonymous plaintiff in Roe v. Wade.