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KATY, Texas (CNS) — Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff “Jane Roe” in the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion virtually on demand, died Feb. 18 at an assisted-living facility in Katy. She was 69. The New York Times said a New York...

Norma McCorvey (AkaAboert Jane Roe) In standing up for unborn children, she stood up also for herself. By Nicholas Frankovich National Review Online Flipping channels in a hotel room in Chicago in June 1995, I stopped at The Late Late Show, where...

By Pastor David Whitney In 1969, a 22 year old woman who had previously attempted suicide, who was unmarried, unemployed and pregnant for the third time, sought to have an abortion in a State that understanding God’s Law ruled that it was illegal. There...

Her name was not Roe, she was Norma McCorvey. She gave birth to the “Roe” baby in June 1970 almost three years before the Supreme Court opinion was written. What did Norma do after giving birth she gave her daughter to a loving adoptive family. She chose...

The Brief - News from the World Over this week. Pope Francis says welcoming migrants a "duty," ties to climate change and income inequality. Migration deaths escalate in Mediterranean. President Trump implements immigration enforcement measures. Remembering...