Her family moved around a lot as she grew up in a military family. McCorvey was rebellious and did not do well in school. Her parents divorced when she was young and she had to live with her mother who she didn't like. He dropped out of high school when he was a sophomore. Norma Nelson McCorvey aka Jane Roe was just twenty-one years old and had already been married and divorced. She was pregnant with her third child. McCorvey relinquished custody of his first child to his mother and she relinquished custody of her second child to his father. She wanted to have an abortion, but it was illegal in the state of Texas at the time. He could not afford, nor did he have the means, to travel to other states where it was legal. In any case he didn't have the money to pay it. The only other option left was adoption. Her doctor referred her to adoption attorney Henry McCluskey. McCluskey ended up introducing McCorvey to Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington. Coffee filed a lawsuit against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County. (Cushman