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The US Justice Department has asked a federal judge to stop Texas from enforcing a new state law which bans abortions beyond six weeks into a pregnancy.

It's the latest twist in a controversy which has renewed attention about the future of the Roe v Wade decision, which guarantees the rights of American women to have an abortion.

Although she won the case, the plaintiff in Roe v Wade - a waitress from Dallas - did give birth to the child she didn't want and put her up for adoption.

The plaintiff's real name was Norma McCorvey and although she shed her pseudonym - Jane Roe - long before her death in 2017, her daughter who was born at the time of the trial聽has remained anonymous...until now.

Joshua Prager is the author of a new book - The Family Roe: an American Story - in which the child is revealed to be Shelley Lynn Thornton.

He's been speaking to the 蜜芽传媒's James Coomarasamy and began by telling him about the origins of the famous lawsuit brought by her mother, Norma.

Photo shows: Norma McCorvey (right, pictured in 1989). Credit: Getty Images.

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