Boss, we've been waiting a good long minute. Endurance creates hope.
Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey
In September 1969, 21-year-old McCorvey became pregnant for the third time. She’d had a difficult childhood, dropping out of school in the ninth grade and ending up in a reform school after a motel maid caught her and another girl kissing. (McCorvey had relationships with both men and women but self-identified as a lesbian.) She wed for the first time at age 16 but divorced her husband when he became physically abusive. After giving birth to a daughter in 1965, she began struggling with drug and alcohol abuse, eventually relinquishing custody to her mother (though whether she did so voluntarily is up for debate). In 1967, she gave birth to a second child, whom she put up for adoption.
During her third pregnancy, McCorvey hoped to get an abortion. But laws in her home state of Texas were highly restrictive, only allowing abortions if carrying the fetus to term threatened the mother’s health. As Erin Blakemore points out for National Geographic, McCorvey—“unlike wealthier and better resourced women”—lacked the means to travel to one of the few states where she could get a legal abortion, and she could not afford to pay for one illegally.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/who-was-norma-mccorvey-the-woman-behind-roe-v-wade-180980311/