Jane Roe,(Norma McCorvey), became a feminist icon after being the anonymous plaintiff in the novel Roe v Wade case, in which the United States Supreme Court legalized abortion.

Jane Roe children: Meet daughter Shelley Lynn Thornton

According to sources Jane died of heart failure at the age of 69 after suffering a cardiac arrest nearly half a decade ago. Jane Roe couldn’t stand the fame she had engulfed herself in at the time, but she eventually learned to be content with her celebrity.

In her early 20s, Jane had gotten pregnant for the third time when she sought an abortion in 1969, which was illegal in Texas at the time except when it was required to save the mother’s life. She made this decision out of frustration because her lover was always beating and sexually abusing her at the time.

Did Jane Roe have a son?

Shelley is the 57-year-old daughter of the late Norma McCorvey and her then-lover, who was married and worked as a sheet metal worker at the time. Jane Roe never had a male child however she had a series of abortions prior to the birth of her only child Shelley.

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