Nation : Shotgun Blasts Fired at Home, Car of Key Abortion Case’s ‘Jane Roe’
The woman known as “Jane Roe” in the landmark Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion has gone into hiding indefinitely after three shotgun blasts were fired at her home and car, her roommate said today.
“She’s real emotional right now,” Connie Gonzales, Norma McCorvey’s roommate, said. “She cries and cries.”
At 4:45 a.m. Tuesday, someone in a car fired a .410-gauge shotgun, shattering the rear window of McCorvey’s car, her living room window and the front door of her home, the Dallas Morning News reported.
McCorvey was the plaintiff in Roe vs. Wade, which resulted in the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision, and has been organizing a pro-choice Jane Roe Foundation.
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