Monday is the 45th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling. — -- Most Americans know of her only by her pseudonym, Jane Roe, the namesake plaintiff in the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case.

Growing up, Shelley Lynn Thornton said she had a nice childhood with parents who she knew adopted her and took good care of her. As a teenager, she said her biggest concerns were "shoes and boys." She ...

In a lawsuit attorneys said was filed on Thursday, a makeup artist accused country singer Garth Brooks of sexual assault and rape. Identified under alias Jane Roe in the lawsuit, the woman said Brooks ...

A lawsuit filed yesterday against Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka accused the Catholic health care system of denying medically necessary abortions to the same woman over three separate ...

1971 – The case is filed by Norma McCorvey, known in court documents as Jane Roe, against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County, who enforced a Texas law that prohibited abortion, except ...

Garth Brooks’ latest legal motion has been unsuccessful. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. After the country singer sought to dismiss a case of sexual assault filed against him by a woman ...

The case Roe v. Wade was brought by a woman named Norma McCorvey who went under the pseudonym Jane Roe. She sought an abortion in Texas, where it was illegal except to save a mother's life. May 22, ...

This after the country singer re-filed his original complaint against "Jane Roe" naming her on Oct. 8 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She ...

The woman who has accused Garth Brooks of sexual assault is not leaving California without a fight. Jane Roe wants to keep the case in California after Brooks asked a court to dismiss and have her ...

It was 52 years ago today the U.S. Supreme Court handed down arguably its most controversial ruling of the 20th Century. The case involved a Texas woman named Norma McCorvey. In 1969 she found out she ...

Garth Brooks is still facing a sexual assault lawsuit despite his efforts to have the case dismissed. Brooks, 62, filed a motion in November requesting a dismissal of the sexual assault and battery ...