The Washington Post reported that it was due to heart failure. McCorvey was 69 years old and passed away at an assisted-living facility in Texas.
McCorvey, the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that legalized abortion, was once an activist for the pro-abortion crowd, but was baptized in the 1990s as an evangelical Christian and crusaded against abortion.
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