2021-09-18
23 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News Today.
I'm Shemita Basu.
Every weekend, we're taking you deeper into the best journalism on Apple News.
Fifty years ago, a case came before the Supreme Court that would forever change U.S.
history.
We'll hear arguments in number 18 against Wade.
What a lot of people don't know is the woman at the center of that case never got the abortion she was seeking.
The ruling took too long, and all.
Of a sudden a light bulb went off in my head and I said to myself, wow, that means that somewhere a child was born, a child whose conception occasioned the lawsuit Roe v.
Wade.
That's Joshua Prager.
He's a journalist.
And when he Learned about this 10 years ago, he decided he was going to find out who that child grew up to be.
He ended up spending hundreds of hours with Jane Roe herself, whose real name is Norma McCorvey, and he tracked down the three daughters she had and gave up for adoption.
The last was the baby at the center of Roe v.
Wade.
Prager's new book is called the Family Row An American Story.
You can read a piece adapted from his book about the woman whose life has been one of the most debated in American history.
That article is in the Atlantic on Apple News.
Norma was not the perfect spokesperson for the movement.