When she filed suit in 1970, McCorvey was not looking for a sweeping ruling for all women but simply the right to legally and safely end a pregnancy that she did not wish to carry forward. The Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 in 1973 that the constitutional right to privacy includes the choice to terminate a pregnancy. McCorvey later became a born-again Christian and a poster child for antiabortion activists.
   
 
News Alert Sat., Feb. 18, 2017 12:26 p.m.
  
 
Norma McCorvey, ‘Jane Roe’ of Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion, dies at 69
When she filed suit in 1970, McCorvey was not looking for a sweeping ruling for all women but simply the right to legally and safely end a pregnancy that she did not wish to carry forward. The Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 in 1973 that the constitutional right to privacy includes the choice to terminate a pregnancy. McCorvey later became a born-again Christian and a poster child for antiabortion activists.
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