Norma McCorvey, American activist (died 2017)

Norma McCorvey

"Roe v. Wade" plaintiff (1947–2017)

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