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Norma McCorvey

1947 - 2017

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Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey (née Nelson; September 22, 1947 – February 18, 2017), also known by the pseudonym Jane Roe, was the plaintiff in the landmark 1973 American legal case Roe v. Wade in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual state laws banning abortion were unconstitutional. Later in her life, McCorvey became an Evangelical Protestant and in her remaining years, a Catholic, and took part in the anti-abortion movement. McCorvey stated then that her involvement in Roe was "the biggest mistake of [her] life". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Norma McCorvey is the 628th most popular social activist (up from 648th in 2019), the 11,160th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,885th in 2019) and the 97th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Norma McCorvey ranks 628 out of 840. Before her are Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, Albertina Sisulu, Lepa Mladjenovic, Aaron Swartz, Octavia Hill, and James Larkin. After her are Angelina Grimké, Jake Angeli, Sumaira Abdulali, Chen Guangcheng, Maria Verónica Reina, and Alva Belmont.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Norma McCorvey ranks 780. Before her are Patrick Grainville, Hubert Ingraham, Chris Thomas, Yehude Simon, Anne Fine, and Leonid Khabarov. After her are Oswaldo Ramírez, Henry McMaster, Tron Øgrim, Sandra Chick, Andy Sutcliffe, and Carole Bayer Sager. Among people deceased in 2017, Norma McCorvey ranks 554. Before her are Kirti Nidhi Bista, Jean E. Sammet, Nicole Bricq, Shelley Berman, Tommy Gemmell, and Lee Yuan-tsu. After her are Isabelle Daniels, Don Williams, Zdravko Hebel, Ryszard Parulski, Peter Sallis, and Nils Nilsson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Norma McCorvey ranks 11,162 out of 20,380. Before her are Abraham Baldwin (1754), Virginia Davis (1918), Brooke Smith (1967), Kevin Michael Richardson (1964), David Dixon Porter (1813), and Mae Clarke (1910). After her are Jaimie Alexander (1984), George Bruns (1914), Isabelle Daniels (1937), Angelina Grimké (1805), John Lawrence LeConte (1825), and Pauline Starke (1901).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Norma McCorvey ranks 97. Before her are Dolores Huerta (1930), Barbara Bush (1981), Yolanda King (1955), James Meredith (1933), Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861), and Aaron Swartz (1986). After her are Angelina Grimké (1805), Jake Angeli (1988), Alva Belmont (1853), Lillian Wald (1867), Frank Kameny (1925), and Lucy Burns (1879).

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