Who Is the 'Roe' in Roe v. Wade?
To millions of Americans , she was Jane Roe . But to friends and family , she was just Norma . The woman at the heart of the 1973Roe v. Wadecase , which legalized abortion in America but was lately overturned in a 6 - 3 decision by the Supreme Court , describe herselfin her 1994 memoir as “ a rough woman , tolerate into hurting and choler and raised mostly by myself ....