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AKA Jane Roe is a 2020 documentary film directed by Nick Sweeney about Norma McCorvey, the woman known as Jane Roe in the landmark US Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade.

The documentary was filmed in 2017 shortly before McCorvey's death.

According to director Nick Sweeney, he did not know that McCorvey was going deathbed confession. He told The Guardian "I absolutely did not expect it to go in the direction that it did. But I was shocked at the things that Norma admitted to and told me." The film present documents showing that McCorvey was paid $456,911 by the anti-abortion movement.

The documentary is composed of 10 months of interviews and archival footage.

Production
The film is the first full-length documentary for director Nick Sweeney. He first reached out to Norma McCorvey in 2016, and spent 10 months conducting interviews for the film. McCorvey died in 2017.

"I think that on all sides of the debate, people wanted to say they knew who Norma McCorvey is or was. And they don't. We wanted Norma to — as a society — wanted her to fit with who we want Jane Roe to be." "You don't get many opportunities to come across a character as interesting or as complex as Norma McCorvey. I think there's a tendency to reduce people like Norma to trophies or emblems, and to kind of ignore the complexity, ignore the contradictions"

Category:2020 in American television