Journalist Jonathan Prager spent years investigating the real 'Roe' family, to learn what it was like to be a child at the centre of Roe v Wade, the landmark abortion legal battle.
Melissa had been raised by her grandmother, McCorvey's mother, and so McCorvey was "in and out of Melissa's life", he says.
Jennifer, the middle child, "had no idea who her [biological] mother was" and "had no idea about Roe v Wade". The youngest, Shelley, found out at the age of about 19 that she was "Baby Roe", and McCorvey was her biological mother, in less than ideal circumstances."It was very depressing for Shelley because it turned out that Norma [McCorvey] had worked with this tabloid to find her."
McCorvey's motivations, Prager says, were to capitalise on the media attention and "hit the road together, and [make] speeches and earn money".When Shelley learnt that her biological mother was at the heart of the widely publicised, landmark legal case, she was "utterly worried", Prager says."All she knew, she told me, at that point about Norma — Jane Roe — was that she had just been portrayed on television by Holly Hunter in an NBC 1989 movie," Prager says.
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