DALLAS — The way Norma McCorvey’s oldest daughter sees it, her late mother — best known as “Jane Roe” in the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling — spent her life striving to help women, but got caught in a battle between movements wanting to use her.
“Because of the part she played in Roe, everybody wanted a piece of her, they didn’t really want her to say what she wanted to, but they wanted something from her,” said Melissa Mills, the only of McCorvey’s three daughters who had a relationship with their biological mother.
McCorvey and Roe v. Wade, a case that originated in Dallas County, are in the headlines as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to issue its ruling on a Mississippi abortion law challenge that is expected to overturn the 1973 decision that established federal abortion rights.
