EXCLUSIVE: Shelley Lynn Thornton, the biological daughter of Norma McCorvey, the woman behind the Roe v. Wade abortion case, speaks to ABC News’ linseydavis in an exclusive interview.
She is speaking out now, she told ABC News, in her first on-camera interview, because"it's my turn."'Oh God, everybody's going to hate me'
But the Supreme Court didn't make that decision until 1973. By then, McCorvey had already given birth and placed the child, who was Thornton, for adoption.Before she was hit with this news at age 19, Thornton said she hadn't thought much about abortion. Most of what she knew, she said, was the"Hollywood version" based on movies.
After dropping her identity on her, she said the reporters asked Thornton if she was"pro-choice or pro-life." She said she told them she didn't even know what that meant. She became publicly known shortly after the Supreme Court decision and became part of the abortion rights activist movement in the 1980s, making appearances and announcing she wanted to find the child she'd placed for adoption.That was thought to be her opinion -- until thewas released in 2020 including a late-life interview where she said she wasn't actually against abortion. She claimed she had been paid by the anti-abortion movement to say she was.
She never agreed to meet her biological mother in person and has"no regrets" about that, not just because of how they were introduced, but also because of comments McCorvey had made to the press about alternatively feeling guilty for placing her for adoption and wishing she'd gotten the abortion.
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