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The woman whose mother's wish to abort her became the landmark Roe v Wade case has agreed to give her first ever television interview.

Shelley Lynn Thornton, 51, was born in Texas before her mother, Norma McCorvey, won the right to an abortion.

McCorvey, who died in 2017 at age 69, gave her baby daughter up for adoption as soon as she was born,in June 1970.

McCorvey would win the case at the Supreme Court on January 22, 1973. 

Thornton's story was first told in The Atlantic last month and, on Monday, she will speak for the first time on ABC News.

In a short clip of Monday's episode, released on Friday, Thornton seemed to remain mum when asked how it feels to be the baby that paved the way for America to legalize abortion nationwide.

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The interview comes as the debate over abortion rights has gained a fresh urgency.

Texas recently passed the harshest abortion restrictions in the country, and the Supreme Court will hear arguments on December 1 over Mississippi's proposed ban.

Thornton, who never met her birth mother in person before her death in 2017, told journalist Joshua Prager she had decided to speak out after more than half a century because she wanted to free herself from the 'secrets and lies.'

'Secrets and lies are, like, the two worst things in the whole world. I'm keeping a secret, but I hate it,' she said, in an adapted excerpt from Prager's new book 'The Family Roe: An American Story', published in The Atlantic.