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"The Family Roe: An American Story" By Joshua Prager

By Joe Donahue
Published September 20, 2021 at 11:37 AM EDT
Book cover for "The Family Roe: An American Story"
W.W. Norton & Company
Book Cover for "The Family Roe: An American Story"

In the new book "The Family Roe: An American Story," Joshua Prager shares for the first time both the identity and the story of Shelley Lynn Thornton, or “the Roe baby” as she has been referred to for nearly 50 years: the child who was put up for adoption by the pseudonymous plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, Jane Roe, whose real name was Norma McCorvey.

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