Who Is Norma Mccorvey's Identity?

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Norma McCorvey was a high school dropout she was divorced and poor. She was 21 years old with a five year old daughter. In 1969 McCorvey got pregnant and wanted to have an abortion because she was poor and wasn't able to support the baby. Her problem was that she lived in Texas and in Texas abortions were illegal unless it was necessary to save a woman's life. So McCorvey had no other choice than to carry her pregnancy. When the baby was born she gave it up for adoption. The Lawyer who set up the adoption introduced McCorvey to Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, both graduated from the University of Texas Law School. The three women decided to protest against the constitutionality of Texas’s Law. In order to protect McCorvey’s identity she