Today (yesterday from here) is the 40th anniversary of Roe
v. Wade, the controversial Supreme Court ruling that progressives want
to enshrine and conservatives want to overturn. Few rulings have been more
consequential. According to Planned Parenthood’s Guttmacher
Institute, 22% of all pregnancies now end in abortion, with 3 in 10 women
terminating their pregnancy by the age of 45. There have been approximately 57
million legally induced abortions in the U.S. since 1973—nearly the current
population of California and Texas combined.
Yet a recent Pew study
found that 4 in 10 “Millennials” don’t even know that Roe v. Wade has to
do with abortion. And even fewer today know the true story of the woman who
started it all, the pseudonymous plaintiff “Jane Roe.” Here are five things you
may not know about her, culled from interviews and profiles along with her
sworn congressional testimony and memoirs...continue
reading.
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