Norma McCorvey, ‘Roe’ in Roe v. Wade, Is Dead at 69 - The New York Times
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Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in the United States, reshaping the nation’s social and political landscapes and inflaming one of the most divisive controversies of the past half-century, died on Saturday in Katy, Tex. She was 69.
At the heart of it all, Ms. McCorvey — known as Jane Roe in the court papers — became an almost mythological figure to millions of Americans, more a symbol of what they believed in than who she was: a young Dallas woman lifted by chance into a national spotlight she never sought and tried for years to avoid, then pulled by the forces of politics to one side of the abortion conflict, then by religion to the other.
Les gens changent au cours de leur vie. Mais les acquis collectifs restent, car ils dépassent les cas individuels. C’est un des problèmes de la Common Law par rapport à la logique républicaine de la Loi en priorité. Le rapport à la loi n’est pas plus simple que celui aux individus qui apportent de grands changements malgré eux.