Norma Scorvey Case Study

Norma McCorvey (Roe) grew up in an unstable environment. As a child, her mom was verbally abusive and was an alcoholic, her father was not in her life for a year and was hardly ever with the family, and her grandmother was a fortune-telling prostitute. Norma began to date, and marry a Woody McCorvey who soon impregnated her. When she told him that she was pregnant, he beat her. They eventually got a divorce and she had the baby; Norma thought she would have the baby and her life would improve, however Norma turned to girls and became lesbian. Her mother was disgusted by her lifestyle so she took Norma’s first child, Melissa, and tricked Norma into signing adoption papers. Norma was working at the Dallas hospital where she met a man she worked with, and
They wanted women to have abortion as an option for themselves. Melissa Higgins claims that legalizing abortion would allow women greater control over their bodies and would make abortion safer. Weddington and Coffee decided to file two separate lawsuits against Texas abortion laws. They filed a lawsuit to the Texas federal court. Weddington and Coffee, the two attorneys’ that would be representing Roe, sought to have more plaintiff’s in order for their case to be stronger. Weddington was encouraged by the Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) court case that was brought to the Supreme Court due to the state of Connecticut violating personal privacy rights that are set in the constitution. Weddington and Coffee both felt led by this case and moved forward. They looked for more plaintiff’s, other than Roe, that would strengthen their argument. “Mary Doe” and “John Doe” who were an unmarried couple that were suggested to avoid getting pregnant were the other two plaintiffs’ for Weddington and Coffee’s case. Since one of the plaintiffs was actually pregnant and the other was not, the attorney’s decided to file two separate lawsuits that would eventually be one case with combined