# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shelley-lynn-thornton
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:24:50.869Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shelley-lynn-thornton"
name: "Shelley Lynn Thornton"
slug: "shelley-lynn-thornton"
description: "Shelley Lynn Thornton is the biological daughter of Norma McCorvey. Also referred to by the pseudonym \"Roe Baby\", Thornton was the child at the center of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. Her identity was not publicly known until 2021."
tagline: "Baby in Roe v. Wade"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shelley_Thornton_1988.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1970-06-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.85
  momentum:             3.838120104438641
  historical:           1.600437333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  44
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Lynn_Thornton"
    title: "Shelley Lynn Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108480611"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations