Posted on 05/21/2020 6:13:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An upcoming documentary reportedly makes an earthshattering claim about Norma McCorvey, the “Roe” in Roe v. Wade (1973), who later regretted her role in making abortion legal and became a defender of the unborn. According to the new FX documentary AKA Jane Roe, McCorvey admitted she was paid off by the pro-life movement. Yet Allan Parker, founder and president of The Justice Foundation, represented McCorvey from 2000 to 2005 and maintained a friendly correspondence with her afterward. He argued against the film’s central claim, suggesting the filmmakers snookered McCorvey and deceptively edited her words.
“I was in contact with Norma while she was ill,” Parker told PJ Media on Wednesday. “She thanked me for doing all we could do to reverse Roe v. Wade. She did tell me that she was doing a documentary with some British producers and that they were paying her. My recollection is she told me they were pro-life and they were doing a documentary about her life and she was being compensated for it. Because I was not formally representing her at the time, I did not investigate further—it was just a friendly conversation.”
McCorvey died of heart failure in Katy, Texas in 2017. AKA Jane Roe, which premiers Friday on FX and Saturday on Hulu, was filmed during the last year of her life. According to NBC News, the film frames her as a mercenary who wanted to come clean in a “death bed confession.”
“I was the big fish,” McCorvey says in the documentary. “I think it was a mutual thing. I took their money, and they put me out in front of the cameras and told me what to say, and that’s what I’d say.”
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BUT, Countering the AKA Jane Roe claim, McCorvey’s lawyer Allan Parker put out a statement claiming the documentary cannot be trusted.
“In view of my many conversations with Norma and considering the sworn testimony she provided to the Supreme Court, I believe the producers of the newly-released FX documentary ‘AKA Jane Roe’ paid Norma, befriended her and then betrayed her. This documentary cannot be trusted and the perception it attempts to create around my friend and former client, Norma, is patently false,” he argued.
McCorvey changed her mind on abortion after working in the abortion industry. “The abortion business is an inherently dehumanizing one,” she testified in 2003. “A person has to let her heart and soul die or go numb to stay in practice. The clinic workers suffer, the women suffer, and the babies die. I can assure this Court that the interest of these mothers is not a concern of abortion providers.”
“Once she became pro-life, Norma fought to the end of her life with all the power and effort she could muster to reverse Roe v. Wade, including asking the Supreme Court to hear her case again,” Parker’s statement explained.
There’s this fake documentary tearing down Norma Corvey and the “Mrs. America” tearing down Phyllis Schafly. It is a concerted effort to destroy the female conservative icons who recently died in advance of the 2020 election. AKA, tearing down our icons to undermine the legitimacy of the movement.
She was paid by the documentary people?
She had a troubled life...
Since she passed away, she is not present to offer any clarification...
I don’t know what to think...This is a mystery...
Any word from her pro-life daughter....? (crickets)
Does McCorvey’s opinion change what we should think of abortion?
RE: Does McCorvey’s opinion change what we should think of abortion?
No it does not and should not. The baby in the womb OBJECTIVELY is HUMAN *REGARDLESS* of what a person, be he/she McCorvey or someone, else thinks.
I know that abortion is murder.
Life begins at conception, and if one ends that life, call it what you will, God calls it murder.
Deal with Him and if you are a non-believer, good luck.
The pro death side always resorts to slander.
I’m passionately pro-life and ask other pro-lifers this:
What if Norma McCorvey was never pro-life?
How would that, in your view, damage the pro-life movement?
I talked with her once.
I believe that she was an opportunist who was never genuinely opposed to abortion.
That doesn’t affect my opposition to abortion at all.
How very dead must be the souls of people who will even lie to keep the slaughter of alive, sensing little humans destroying our society and our future.
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