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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The woman whose conception was central to the Roe v. Wade ruling spoke out against the Supreme Court's reversal.</li><li>Shelley Lynn Thornton told <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/supreme-court-abortion/?id=85396940#85812533">ABC News</a> that she worries about what lies ahead.</li></ul>The woman whose conception sparked Roe v. Wade released a statement this week speaking out against the Supreme Court's Friday decision to overturn the 1973 landmark case which previously protected federal <keyword id="11901426" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="abortion" source="Orion">abortion</keyword> rights.<a href="https://www.insider.com/baby-whose-conception-inspired-roe-v-wade-finally-identified-herself-2021-9">Shelley Lynn Thornton</a>, the biological daughter of <keyword id="14304922" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="norma-mccorvey" source="Orion">Norma McCorvey</keyword>, who used the pseudonym "Jane Roe" during litigation, told <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/supreme-court-abortion/?id=85396940#85812533">ABC News</a> on Monday that she worries the <keyword id="11964182" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="scotus" source="Orion">SCOTUS</keyword> ruling could portend future disquiet."Too many times has a woman's choice, voice and individual freedom been decided for her by others. Being that I am bound to the center of Roe v. Wade, I have a unique perspective on this matter specifically," Thornton told the outlet via a spokesperson."I believe that the decision to have an abortion is a private, medical choice that should be between a woman, her family, and her doctor," she added. "We have lived in times of uncertainty and insecurity before, but to have such a fundamental right taken away and this ruling be overturned concerns me of what lies ahead."Thornton's identity was unknown for decades following Roe v. Wade, but she came forward last year and identified herself as the baby at the heart of the case. McCorvey never had the abortion she was fighting for as litigation in the case lasted long after she had given birth and subsequently given her child up for adoption.In a 2021 article in <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/jane-roe-v-wade-baby-norma-mccorvey/620009/">The Atlantic,</a> as well as journalist Joshua Prager's book "<a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?u=https%3A%2F%2Faffiliate.insider.com%2F%3Fu%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.amazon.com%252Fgp%252Fproduct%252F0393247716%253Fie%253DUTF8%2526tag%253Dthewaspos09-20%2526camp%253D1789%2526linkCode%253Dxm2%2526creativeASIN%253D0393247716%26amazonTrackingID%3Dbiauto-50308-20%26site%3Din%26vikingID%3D613b6942e278c620c774d9e8%26platform%3Dbrowser%26sc%3Dfalse%26disabled%3Dfalse%26sessionID%3D16563761078787b5cb80p%26tag%3Dinsider-safetynet-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noindex noopener sponsored">The Family Roe: An American Story</a>," Thornton opened up about her life after finding out she was the child at the center of Roe. She said knowing she was supposed to be terminated had affected her mental health, making her anxious and depressed. But she also said that she didn't want to be used as an anti-abortion symbol. "I guess I don't understand why it's a government concern," Thornton told The Atlantic.McCorvey died from heart failure at the age of 69 in 2017.Thornton's statement echoed similar comments made by Melissa Mills, the eldest daughter of McCorvey. Mills told <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnxgL6h8pKQ">CNN</a> that her mother would be "devastated" by the Supreme Court's Friday decision."I was in disbelief. I was devastated," Mills said on CNN's "New Day." "I knew it was coming, but it was just too real that it really happened."

Biological daughter of 'Jane Roe' slams Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, saying it has been 'too many times' that a woman's choice 'has been decided for her by others'

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="4195233" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="norma-mccorvey">Norma McCorvey</keyword>, the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, confessed at the end of her life that she was paid a significant amount of money to promote anti-abortion causes.</li><li>In the documentary "AKA <keyword id="9250506" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="jane-roe">Jane Roe</keyword>," premiering on FX Networks and Hulu on May 22, McCovey, who died at of heart failure at the age of 69 in 2017, tells her complex life story. </li><li>Over 20 years after the landmark Roe v. Wade case in 1973, McCorvey went from an <keyword id="6357791" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="abortion">abortion</keyword>-rights advocate to a born-again Evangelical Christian and ardent opponent of abortion. </li><li>But in what she described in the documentary as her "deathbed confession," McCovey said her anti-abortion activism as "all an act" and she was coached on what to say and paid to oppose abortion. </li></ul>Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, confessed in the forthcoming documentary "AKA Jane Roe" that she was paid a significant amount of money <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jane-roe-confesses-anti-abortion-conversion-all-an-act-paid-for-by-the-christian-right">to promote anti-abortion causes.</a>The documentary, directed by Nick Sweeney and premiering on FX Networks and Hulu on May 22, shows McCovey, who died at of heart failure at the age of 69 in 2017, telling her complex life story.McCorvey, who grew up a poor and unstable home environment in Texas, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/norma-mccorvey-jane-roe-of-roe-v-wade-decision-legalizing-abortion-dies-at-69/2017/02/18/24b83108-396e-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html">gained national prominence as the plaintiff, then known as Jane Roe, in the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade.</a>At the age of 22, McCorvey sought an abortion in 1969 to end a pregnancy during a turbulent, and what she described as abusive, marriage. At that point, two attorneys represented her as the plaintiff in a case to sue Texas over its law prohibiting abortion except to save the life of the mother. The case became a class-action suit, and made it to the Supreme Court. In a 7-2 decision in 1973, the Court ruled to extend the right to privacy established under due process clause of the 14th amendment to abortion, ruling that states could not prohibit patients from accessing the procedure in the first trimester of pregnancy.Ironically, McCorvey never got an abortion herself. By the time the case was decided, her third child, who she gave up for adoption, was already a toddler. After the watershed decision, McCorvey was out of the public eye for some time before becoming a more open advocate supporting abortion rights and working on behalf of abortion access causes in Texas, although her complicated personal life and the inconsistencies she spread about the circumstances surrounding her own pregnancy made her an imperfect figurehead for the movement. Then, in a dramatic reversal in the 1990s, McCorvey became a born-again Evangelical Christian, publicly affiliated herself with Operation Rescue, a controversial militant anti-abortion group now known as Operation Save America, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/02/18/jane-roe-made-abortion-legal-then-a-minister-made-her-repent/">and vocally opposed the procedure for years. </a>But in what she described in the documentary as her "deathbed confession," McCovey characterized her anti-abortion activism as "all an act," telling a number of friends — and the public — that she was paid to repeat anti-abortion talking points, according to reviews of the documentary <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jane-roe-confesses-anti-abortion-conversion-all-an-act-paid-for-by-the-christian-right">in the Daily Beast</a> and <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-05-19/roe-v-wade-jane-roe-norma-mccorvey-hulu-doc-abortion">the Los Angeles Times. </a>When asked if the anti-abortion Evangelical movement used her "as a trophy" in their cause, she said, "Of course. I was the Big Fish...I think it was a mutual thing. I took their money and they took me out in front of the cameras and told me what to say. That's what I'd say.""I'm a good actress...of course," she added. "I'm not acting now." The documentary makers found that McCorvey had been paid at least $456,911 worth of "benevolent gifts" by the anti-abortion groups she affiliated herself with,<a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-05-19/roe-v-wade-jane-roe-norma-mccorvey-hulu-doc-abortion"> the Beast reported. </a>Evangelical Reverend Rob Schenck, who once led Operation Rescue but has since distanced himself from the movement, also expressed regret at how he and others cultivated McCorvey as an anti-abortion voice, admitting to the filmmakers that he and others coached McCorvey on what to say out of fear "that she would go back to the other side." "I had never heard her say anything like this," he says when shown footage of McCorvey confessing her activism was an act. "But I knew what we were doing. And there were times when I was sure she knew. And I wondered, Is she playing us? What I didn't have the guts to say was, because I know damn well we're playing her," he said.Sweeney <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-05-19/roe-v-wade-jane-roe-norma-mccorvey-hulu-doc-abortion">told the Los Angeles Times</a> that he wanted to tell McCorvey's story not through the lens of a pro or anti-abortion rights movement, but on her own terms with all the complicating factors and tragedies that made her never a perfect figurehead for anyone's movement. "I thought she was extremely interesting and enigmatic. I liked that her life was full of these fascinating contradictions," he said. McCorvey succinctly sums up her view on abortion in her own words in the documentary, saying, "If a young woman wants to have an abortion, that's no skin off my ass. That's why they call it choice."<h3>See the full trailer for "AKA Jane Roe" here: </h3>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/norma-mccorvey-jane-roe-was-paid-to-publicly-campaign-against-abortion-2020-5">Business Insider</a>

'All an act': Norma McCorvey, the Jane Roe plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, says she was paid by right-wing groups to publicly turn against abortion

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Shelley Lynn Thorton is the biological child of Jane Roe from the landmark 1973 <keyword id="12004409" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="roe-v-wade" source="Orion">Roe v Wade</keyword> SCOTUS case.</li><li>Now 51, Thorton has identified herself as the "Roe baby."</li><li>Thorton said knowing she was supposed to be aborted affected her mental <keyword id="11894571" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="health" source="Orion">health</keyword>, but she doesn't want to be an anti-abortion symbol.</li></ul>Shelley Lynn Thorton, the woman whose birth led to the landmark <a href="https://www.insider.com/what-underground-abortions-look-like-roe-v-wade-is-overturned-2020-12">1973 Roe v Wade Supreme Court case</a>, is finally speaking about her life after 51 years of anonymity.In journalist Joshua Prager's upcoming book "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393247716?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thewaspos09-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=0393247716eASIN=0393247716" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Family Roe: An American Story</a>," Thornton explains why she waited half a century to reveal her identity."Secrets and lies are, like, the two worst things in the whole world," <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/jane-roe-v-wade-baby-norma-mccorvey/620009/">Thorton told Prager</a>. "I'm keeping a secret, but I hate it."Her mother, known to the world as Jane Roe but to Thorton as Norma McCorvey, gave Thornton up for adoption because the court case lasted longer than her pregnancy. Still, Thorton's legacy as the baby whose existence spurred change in reproductive rights remains.Now, Roe v Wade, which says people have a federal right to <a href="https://www.insider.com/best-abortion-portrayals-tv-movies-ranked-by-experts-2021-7">abortion</a> without extensive government intervention, is in jeopardy as <a href="https://www.insider.com/texas-abortion-ban-legal-health-implications-2021-9">states like Texas pass restrictive legislation</a> effectively <a href="https://www.insider.com/texas-disabled-woman-raped-needed-abortion-after-6-weeks-2021-9">banning the procedure</a>.<h2>Thorton said knowing she was unwanted made her depressed and anxious</h2>A single woman in Dallas who later married became Thorton's adoptive mother. She didn't know at the time Thorton's relationship with Roe v Wade.Though Thorton's adoptive family never hid the circumstances of their family from her, Thorton said she became anxious and depressed as a young teenager because she felt unwanted."When someone's pregnant with a baby and they don't want that baby, that person develops knowing they're not wanted," Thorton told Prager.Ten days before Thornton turned 19, she met her birth mother and learned her identity as Jane Roe. As the adoptive daughter of an anti-abortion couple, Thorton reeled."The only thing I knew about being pro-life or pro-choice or even Roe v. Wade was that this person had made it OK for people to go out and be promiscuous," Thorton said of her thinking at the time.She told Prager tabloids used her hurt feelings and shock at the time to frame her as "pro-life," when she had said that she couldn't see herself getting an <keyword id="11901426" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="abortion" source="Orion">abortion</keyword>.When McCorvey died from heart failure four years ago, Thorton, now a mother of three, didn't say goodbye in person.Instead, Thorton reflected on what she longed for from her biological mother, to "feel something for another human being, especially for one she brought into this world.""I want her to experience this joy - the good that it brings. I have wished that for her forever and have never told anyone."

The woman whose conception sparked Roe v Wade has identified herself for the first time

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The 1973 landmark case Roe v. Wade established the constitutional right to an <keyword id="11901426" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="abortion" source="Orion">abortion</keyword> in the US.</li><li>The <keyword id="11893011" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="supreme-court" source="Orion">Supreme Court</keyword> appears poised to overturn that decision, a leaked draft opinion indicated.</li></ul>Abortion is a constitutionally protected right in the US and has been since 1973, but a Supreme Court draft opinion leaked last week suggests that could soon change.If the court overturns Roe, as it appears poised to do, abortion will no longer be a federally protected right. Here's what that means.<h2>Before Roe v. Wade</h2>Prior to 1973, abortion rights were not protected by the federal government. States were free to legislate abortion as they pleased, and at one point or another, most did. Laws varied state by state, though most banned abortions.Four states — New York, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii — <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/01/22/charts-how-roe-v-wade-changed-abortion-rights/?variant=95d42e19c24b03e7">legalized abortion</a> in almost all cases before fetus viability, about 24 weeks of pregnancy. Another 13 states allowed abortion in some circumstances. Almost all the rest outlawed abortion, except to save the life of the pregnant woman.<h2>Roe v. Wade: the case that established the constitutional right to an abortion</h2>In 1970, Norma McCorvey, an unmarried pregnant woman in Texas who used the pseudonym "Jane Roe," filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of abortion laws in Texas, which prohibited the procedure except for the purpose of saving the mother's life. The defendant in the case was Henry Wade, the Dallas County district attorney.The lawsuit alleged that Texas' abortion laws violated her right to privacy protected under the Constitution.In 1973, the Supreme Court issued a <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/410/113/#tab-opinion-1950136">7-2 ruling</a> in favor of Roe that said the Constitution protected the right to an abortion before viability. The court cited the Due Process Clause of the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv">14th Amendment</a>, which says, "Nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."The court held that a person could choose to have an abortion before the fetus became viable, or could survive outside the womb, estimated to be about 24 weeks after conception.The two dissenting justices criticized the majority opinion, arguing it exceeded the judicial power of the court and took away the power that belonged to state legislatures, arguments that are still levied against Roe v. Wade today."There are all levels of rights, and the highest level of rights is a constitutional right," Doron Kalir, a professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, told Insider. "When the right exists, neither Congress nor the state can challenge that right because it comes straight from the Supreme Court, which is the ultimate arbiter of the Constitution."When the Supreme Court ruled on Roe, it established the constitutional right to an abortion. It made existing state-level abortion bans invalid essentially overnight, and in the 49 years since, it has prevented states from issuing new bans.In <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/505/833">Planned Parenthood v. Casey</a> in 1992, the Supreme Court again upheld the right to an abortion before fetal viability.<h2>Precedent: 'To stand by things decided'</h2><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/stare_decisis">Stare decisis</a>, which means "to stand by things decided" in Latin, is a legal doctrine stipulating that courts will abide by precedent when making their decisions.The Supreme Court has <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/13-720">said</a> that "stare decisis promotes the evenhanded, predictable, and consistent development of legal principles, fosters reliance on judicial decisions, and contributes to the actual and perceived integrity of the judicial process."Despite the doctrine, the Supreme Court is not bound to follow precedent. But justices usually do, Kalir said, for a number of reasons, including tradition, consistency, and public trust in the court."If every day the Supreme Court can overrule itself, then you don't know what the law is," he said, adding that breaking precedent could also increase the public's perception of the Supreme Court as a political body rather than a neutral interpreter of the law."When the law changes, it doesn't look like the Supreme Court. It looks like Congress," he added.There are well-known examples of the Supreme Court overturning precedent. For instance, the 1896 decision in <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/plessy_v_ferguson_(1896)">Plessy v. Ferguson</a>, which allowed "separate but equal" segregation laws, was overturned by <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/347/483%26gt">Brown v. Board of Education</a> in 1954.But overturning precedent is not something justices take lightly, and they usually do it incrementally rather than in one fell swoop, as could be the case here, the leaked draft opinion indicated.<h2>How the Supreme Court could overturn abortion rights</h2>The draft opinion is for a case from Mississippi, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/19-1392">Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization</a>.The state of Mississippi passed a law in 2018 that outlawed most abortions in the state after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for a medical emergency or "a severe fetal abnormality." As Roe v. Wade protected the right to an abortion until 24 weeks, the law was challenged as unconstitutional.Jackson Women's Health Organization, the only abortion clinic in Mississippi, sued to block the law, naming Thomas E. Dobbs, the Mississippi state health officer, in the case. After lower courts ruled in the clinic's favor, Mississippi appealed to the Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case.The draft opinion, published by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473">Politico</a>, showed five justices voting in favor of striking down Roe. The 98-page opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, was unflinching in its criticism of the Roe v. Wade decision."Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences," Alito wrote. "We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled," he continued. "It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives."Kalir said it's rare for justices to so forcefully condemn a previous court decision, especially one with 50 years of precedent. "Never before has the court overruled itself in such an egregious tone and in such a contemptuous manner," he said.Alito argued that to assert that abortion rights were protected under the concept of "liberty" in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, as the justices did in 1973, was wrong."The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely — the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment," Alito wrote, adding that the right to an abortion was not part of US history.<h2>What happens next?</h2>The leaked opinion is not final and may change before the final ruling is released this summer, though it appears likely that Roe v. Wade will <a href="https://www.insider.com/what-happens-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned-2022-5">be overturned</a>.If it is, laws such as Mississippi's can be upheld, including other state abortion laws going through court challenges. There are also 13 states with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trigger-law-states-failed-to-plan-for-end-of-roe-v-wade-2022-5">"trigger laws"</a> that ban or restrict abortions. These laws are designed to take effect when Roe falls.States and the federal government would be free to legislate abortion.Some GOP lawmakers have floated the idea of a federal ban on abortion, while Democrats in Congress are set to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/roe-v-wade-the-bill-democrats-are-pushing-to-protect-abortion-rights-2022-5">vote this week</a> on a bill that would protect abortion rights, though it's all but certain to fail.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>High profile attorney <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/lisa-bloom">Lisa Bloom</a> has made a career out of representing women against powerful men.</li><li>She's the daughter of Gloria Allred, another famous lawyer who has fought for decades for women's rights, including representing Nicole Simpson in the O.J. Simpson trial, and Norma McCorvey from the abortion rights case, Roe v. Wade.</li><li>Like Allred, Bloom uses the media to get results. She's successfully sued Bill Cosby's estate, helped force Bill O'Reilly from Fox News, and won cases for celebrities like Mischa Barton.&#xa0;</li><li>But the public's perception of Bloom disintegrated in 2017 when media mogul <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/harvey-weinstein">Harvey Weinstein</a> was accused by multiple women of sexual assault. Bloom was one of his legal advisors.&#xa0;</li><li>She faced a backlash for choosing to work for a powerful man against women.&#xa0;</li><li>In 2019, the issue resurfaced when New York Times' reporters published a book called "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/08/books/harvey-weinstein-book-kantor-twohey.html">She Said</a>: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement." In it, is a memo from Bloom offering a smear campaign against Rose McGowan, one of his accusers.&#xa0;</li><li>Here's everything you need to know about her controversial career.&#xa0;</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Lisa Bloom has made a career out of representing the underdog. She hosts well-planned press conferences, so women can tell their stories about being wronged by powerful men. She harnesses the media to get results when the courtroom isn't enough.She's the daughter of famous women right's lawyer Gloria Allred. <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/28/lisa-bloom-harvey-weinstein-gloria-allred-me-too-218011">According to Politico</a>, "The names Allred and Bloom are synonymous with aggressive legal strategy on behalf of wronged women, and relentless public-relations campaigns against rich and influential men."But in 2017 the world found out she was working for alleged sexual assaulter Harvey Weinstein. Bloom went from being called "a defender of women" on the cover of a magazine, to having her mother release a statement saying she would work with any Weinstein accusers, even if that meant taking on Bloom in court.&#xa0;Before the backlash, Bloom had represented the women who <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-lisa-bloom-20171019-story.html">accused actor Bill Cosby and Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly of sexual harassment and abuse</a>. She tried to represent a woman who wanted to press charges against President Donald Trump, but it never eventuated. After the backlash, she's still working, most notably for sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein's accusers.&#xa0;Here's her career to date.&#xa0;

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