Jane Roe was already on her third pregnancy when the infamous court case was being heard. Her first two pregnancies all resulted in adoption. She was living in Texas, where abortion was illegal, and could not afford to get to a state where it was. So she set out to see if someone could send her in the right direction. She was introduced to a young lawyer that was trying to sue the state for the right to abortion; and they needed a desperate and believable plaintiff. McCorvey was the perfect candidate for Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, but her story needed to be more believable.
So she and her attorneys told the court the pregnancy was the result of a gang rape, so she "needed" an abortion and she deserved the right to choose, or she thought she did. So on March 17, 1970, she signed an affidavit that would, in her words some years later, " brought the holocaust of abortion into America." By the time the courts made their decision in 1973, she had already given birth to her baby, who was also adopted.
So the figurehead of the abortion movement, never actually had an abortion. In fact she was only used for the sole purpose of the attorneys to push their movement. Her image didn't fit the look of their movement. She was an alcoholic, drug-user, and worked odd jobs undesirable to those they were trying to reach. After she signed the papers she had nothing to do with the movement till many years later. A civil rights attorney from Los Angeles named Gloria Allred, befriended her and told her to feel proud that she was Jane Roe, and set her on the course for working for abortion rights.
She made a career out of working for abortion clinics in Dallas Texas. Until one day when Operation Rescue set up shop next to the clinic. Operation Rescue is now the nation’s leading pro-life Christian activist organization. It was then under the leadership of director Flip Benham, who McCorvey preferred at the time to call Flip Venom. Assisting Benham was Ronda Mackey, a fiery young mother of two girls, Chelsea and Emily. Although she assumed they would be filled with hate like other protesters around the country, she was constantly met with love and friendship from them. As time past, their love grew on her and she excepted an invitation to their church.
That day Jane Roe died, and Norma McCorvey was reborn. Norma excepted Christ into her life that day, and was baptized that afternoon in the family's pool. From that day forward she made it her cause in life to try and get that infamous court case overturned. From protest speeches, to lobbying Congress, she was now pro-life because she had been given new life. The poster child for abortion, had leaped off the poster and took up the charge to fight for life.
This is a story we never hear. The media takes great steps to keep the information one sided. Even at her death last year the reports from popular media did what they could to paint her in a bad light.(Such as here and here) But there are always two sides to a story, and you can usually tell truth where there is love.
Just as Norma McCovey, a young girl at the time, poor, addicted to drugs, and with a hard life, was coerced into lying for the case; so was another young girl, attached to the other high profile case in the Supreme Court Doe-v-Bolton. Another young girl, Sandra Cano was living a life very similar to Norma's and looking for help out of a horrible marriage. Both girls, used under the false pretenses of the liberation of women, were used as the faces of the abortion movement.
Both never had an abortion. Both are pushing too have the rulings overturned.
