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The Family Roe - An American Story (Hardcover)
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The Family Roe - An American Story (Hardcover)
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Despite her famous pseudonym, "Jane Roe," no one knows the truth
about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969
opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager
spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal
papers-a previously unseen trove-and witnessed her final moments.
The Family Roe presents her life in full. Propelled by the
crosscurrents of sex and religion, gender and class, it is a life
that tells the story of abortion in America. Prager begins that
story on the banks of Louisiana's Atchafalaya River where Norma was
born, and where unplanned pregnancies upended generations of her
forebears. A pregnancy then upended Norma's life too, and the
Dallas waitress became Jane Roe. Drawing on a decade of research,
Prager reveals the woman behind the pseudonym, writing in
novelistic detail of her unknown life from her time as a sex worker
in Dallas, to her private thoughts on family and abortion, to her
dealings with feminist and Christian leaders, to the three
daughters she placed for adoption. Prager found those women,
including the youngest-Baby Roe-now fifty years old. She shares her
story in The Family Roe for the first time, from her tortured
interactions with her birth mother, to her emotional first meeting
with her sisters, to the burden that was uniquely hers from
conception. The Family Roe abounds in such revelations-not only
about Norma and her children but about the broader "family"
connected to the case. Prager tells the stories of activists and
bystanders alike whose lives intertwined with Roe. In particular,
he introduces three figures as important as they are unknown:
feminist lawyer Linda Coffee, who filed the original Texas lawsuit
yet now lives in obscurity; Curtis Boyd, a former fundamentalist
Christian, today a leading provider of third-trimester abortions;
and Mildred Jefferson, the first black female Harvard Medical
School graduate, who became a pro-life leader with great secrets.
An epic work spanning fifty years of American history, The Family
Roe will change the way you think about our enduring American
divide: the right to choose or the right to life.
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