ABC News Exclusive: 'Baby Roe' breaks her silence

"Im not gonna let either side use me". Smart woman!

Her adoptive parents raised one hell of a woman. They must be very proud.

When she said “ im not going to let any side use me” that’s power RECOVERED. Good 👍 for 👍you ! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💯

I am a man who almost was not. My mother wanted an abortion but my grandmother talked her out of it and started raising me when she was 80 years old. Thank you for saving my life grandma.

The fact that she thought everyone would blame her for abortion being made legal, when she was a literal child, shows just how messed up this world has become.

Applause for staying out of it. She doesn’t owe anyone an explanation.

"She didn't deserve to meet me". The words of a well balanced woman. Very true words. 🥰

I remember how my mother wanted to abort me when she was pregnant with me. I don’t talk to her, she raised me and my childhood was living hell. So much hell I left the country and had my daughter here. Those two women were given a chance in life growing up with two beautiful families. I used to run away from home. Not all families are family. The mother didn’t do well in life, but at least she did good knowing that she wasn’t good enough for them to raise them, that she was a dark person. Not all mothers can raise a child, not all parents can be nurturing parents.

I CAN'T BELIEVE reporters jumped her walking down the street and heartlessly broke the news that she was not only adopted, but that she is the Roe baby. How disgusting. I'm glad she grew up in a loving, supportive family; its hard to imagine how much worse things could've been for her.

I have a lot of respect for her not wanting to be political tool for ether side

friendly reminder: not all kids that go into the foster care system go into loving homes. most get put into the care of abusive parents. the foster care system is absolutely insane and there are still thousands of children in the system that will most likely be in there until they’re “old enough to take care of themselves”. it’s these rare cases that makes me have hope for the future of this country, but i believe abortion 100% should stay legal because of all of the mental and physical health aspects of it.

I was adopted and feel like my biological parents made their decision by giving me up as a baby. Now that I am an adult that decision is mine, I have no regrets, for never reaching out to meet them. My adopted parents were my parents they are the ones who raised me and gave me my values. These other people just gave me the opportunity to live which might have turned out differently if abortion was legal when I was born.

OK, as a Christian, I can tell you: God would NEVER tell ANYONE to bomb a clinic, no matter what treatment or surgery they are performing. We value LIFE above all things, and that goes for EVERYONE! How dare they do such hate crimes saying "God told them to". That's blasphemy and shameful!!!! This is a touchy subject, but as the Bible says, "let's REASON together."

I used to work with Jennifer. She was my supervisor. A reporter came to our job looking to speak with her, and that's when she told me who her mother was. God bless her and her family. She still looks the same.

Straight up, beautifully honest person. I wish her all the happiness and good things in the world.

There are people in the comments here stating things to the effect of “I was almost aborted, I’m so glad I wasn’t, I love life and I love being alive”. That sentiment isn’t bad, but it only tells people one type of story and one string of emotions. I like being alive, not all the time, but I’m not suicidal by any means. I don’t wish for death. I don’t regret being alive. I love music and flowers and poetry and powerlifting, I care for my family greatly, I try to cherish everything in life I can, I look to the future and I don’t see a blackening tunnel. My mother, however, didn’t like being alive and she didn’t like me being alive either. I was raised in a household where I wasn’t wanted, if I chose to be anything but a figurative doll to dress up and play with, I was treated as if I were less important than everything and everyone else around me. This carried on until I ran away and I haven’t looked back since. I’m in a much better place now albeit, but I still wish my mother had the option to abort me, and I wish everyone in the place of possibly being a mother had that option as well. I could’ve gone to a loving home, I could’ve been given up into the arms of people who wouldn’t have treated me in a damaging way. I could’ve lived a life far from the one I did. I didn’t though, and I will never get my pained childhood, nor the years I spent after patching up what shouldn’t have been broken in the first place, back. It’s good I’m here now, but no one should be forced to have a child they don’t want, no child should be brought into a home that doesn’t want them from before their first breaths. Some might go into good homes, and that’s wonderful, but others won’t. That’s inevitable, yes, but it should be avoided as much as possible. I’m one of the lucky ones, I chose to keep going, I chose to fix what my mother and the people around her broke. Not everyone chooses that route, not everyone comes out with scars; some come out of it with an ashy headstone.

Whether she supports abortion or not, I appreciate that she's staying out of it and refusing to let herself be used as a pawn

“She didn’t deserve to meet me.” Such self-worth instilled in her, that’s amazing.

God bless this woman whose had to navigate a potpourri of emotions her whole adult life. 🙏🏿for you Shelley Thornton.

This interview was extremely well done and it was so powerful. Shelley Lynn Thornton is a truly strong woman and we need more people like her in the world.