'Roe' Visits Ireland: Wants 1973 US Ruling on Abortion Reversed Irish Times. February 13, 2004: "Norma McCorvey, better known as Jane Roe in the legal judgement that effectively introduced abortion-on-demand in the USA, expects to learn within several weeks whether the US judiciary will reopen the 30-year-old case. McCorvey, now a grandmother, is determined to have the Roe vs Wade ruling reversed. Speaking after addressing students at the Law Society of NUI Galway, Ms McCorvey said she felt she had been "used" by the pro-choice movement and was now vehemently against abortion. On January 22nd, 1973, the US Supreme Court ruled that abortion was a right of privacy that could not be prohibited by individual states. The Roe vs Wade judgement overruled total bans on abortion in 33 US states. The legal case took so long that Ms McCorvey, who had taken Jane Roe as a pseudonym, had the child and gave her up for adoption. She worked subsequently in abortion clinics and says she changed her view on the issue after she underwent a religious conversion more than 10 years ago. She now wants the verdict overturned, and her lawyer expects to hear oral arguments in New Orleans on March 2nd, which would determine if a review can proceed." For the full article from the Irish Times, please click here.