‘Jane Roe’ talks on abortion issue in Tulsa

 
BY BILL SHERMAN - Tulsa World
Published: October 12, 2009

TULSA — The plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion spoke of her experience as a key figure in the case, and then her eventual switch to advocating for what she called the pro-life cause.

Norma McCorvey , better known as Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade , is a small woman, with short-cropped red hair barely showing under a baseball cap, and a cigarette often dangling between her fingers.

She...


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