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In 1969, a 25-year-old single woman using the pseudonym "Jane Roe" challenged the criminal abortion laws in Texas. The state forbade abortion as unconstitutional, except in cases where the mother's life was in danger.
What emerged over the next few years was a case known widely as Roe v Wade - which gave women across America the right to terminate a pregnancy.
Last year, the US Supreme Court - the nation's most senior legal body - overturned that.
Fifty years after the original landmark ruling, we look back at the story of Jane Roe from Roe v Wade.
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