Plaintiff in Roe vs Wade Case by Mary Rourke and Emily Alpert Reyes

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Plaintiff in Roe vs Wade case
Writer: Mary Rourke and Emily Alpert Reyes
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Questions

1. Who said she would like nothing more than to see Roe vs Wade overturned?
2. When did McCorvey die?
3. Where did she die?
4. How many kids did McCorvey have?
5. In what year did McCorvey meet lawyers Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee?
6. What law in Texas were the two attorneys getting ready to fight?
7. What did McCorvey’s Attorneys contest?
8. What alias did Norma McCorvey use to fight the law?
9. In which court did the lawsuit start?
10. What did the Supreme Court decide in January 1973?
11. There were 9 judges on the Supreme Court.  How many judges were for and against?
12. Why did Norma McCorvey give up her children to adoption?
13. Who said Norma McCorvey was never a “poster child” of the movement because “poster people were supposed to look like suburban wives”?
14. Who wrote, “Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe vs. Wade”?
15. Which of the two attorneys argue in front of the judges?
16. Who appealed the Dallas District Court decision to the Supreme Court?
17. The Dallas District Court decided in favor of “Roe,” District Attorney Wade, the defendant, said he would continue to prosecute doctors who performed abortions.  In your opinion, do you think it is fair for doctors to be prosecuted for doing abortions?
18. What was Norma McCorvey’s birth name?
19. When was Norma born?
20. Where was Norma born?
21. What was the name of her father?
22. What was the name of her mother?
23. How old was Norma when her parents divorced?
24. At what age did Norma marry?
25. What was Norma’s husband’s name?
26. What was Norma’s first baby’s name?
27. Which movie did McCorvey consulted on?
28. Who starred in that movie and played McCorvey?
29. How did the abortion controversy hit McCorvey?
30. Who was nicknamed “Flipper”?
31. Who began to talk to McCorvey and changed her mid to be a speaker for an anti-abortion group?