Posted on 01/17/2016 3:50:04 PM PST by Morgana
There is a 46-year-old woman, born in Texas, who should be dead right now. In fact, she should have never been born. Forty-three years ago, the Supreme Court decided that the Texas law that prevented Jane Roe from ending the life of her unborn daughter was unconstitutional. But by the time the Supreme Court issued its decision in 1973, she had already been born and adopted by a family—likely not knowing that all that ink spilled in Roe v. Wade was about her.
Norma McCorvey is “Jane Roe.†She claimed then that her pregnancy was the result of a rape, although for over a decade now she has been outspokenly pro-life and publicly admitted that this, and virtually every fact on which her case was built, was a lie. Both McCorvey and Sandra Cano, the Doe of Doe v. Bolton—Roe’s companion case from Georgia decided the same day—are now outspoken pro-life advocates who have sworn that their cases are built on lies (Cano unfortunately passed away in October 2014).
But before the Supreme Court could decide whether McCorvey did have a constitutional right to end her unborn daughter’s life, it had to overcome a procedural obstacle that slowed down the process—a delay that factored into whether her daughter would ever have a family.
Because of that delay, McCorvey had already had the child by the time the Supreme Court issued its decision in January 1973. She had been adopted into a Texas home, perhaps somewhere in the Dallas area where McCorvey lived. The court nevertheless said that McCorvey’s case was not moot since her circumstances were “capable of repetition†because courts would never be able to decide the question during the time of a woman’s pregnancy.
Procedural history is never the exciting part of a lawsuit. But for McCorvey’s unborn daughter, the dry complexity of legal procedure is the reason she exists today. Fortunately for a three-year old girl, “the wheels of justice grind slowly,†and by the time the court issued its decision, a Texas family had adopted her. If the courts could have moved more quickly, she (and her family) would have never had that chance.
It is unknown to me whether the adoptive family ever even knew that their daughter was the supposedly unwanted child who was the subject of Roe. As far as we know, they raised her not knowing who she was and certainly never telling her.
This week many are talking about the more than 58 million people whose lives have been brutally ended by abortion. And rightly so. The numbers are staggering. Imagine the average attendance at every NFL, NBA, and NHL game – gone. Eliminated. The population of the 18 states in the area from Arkansas and Wisconsin in the East to Idaho and Nevada in the west: gone. More than either the Hispanic or the African American population of the U.S.
It’s horrific. But it’s also personal. And today somewhere, maybe still in Texas, there lives a 46-year-old woman, perhaps with a family and a career of her own, with beautiful children that she loves dearly. Perhaps with a husband and family that can’t imagine life without her. The 58 million other babies deserved that same chance at life. Like McCorvey’s daughter, they were all created in the image of a loving God and would have been loved and wanted by someone. That’s why we fight. That’s #WhyWeMarch.
Happens quite often. Abby Johnson and Alveda King are two that come to mind.
The country would be much better off if those 58 million babies had not been killed and that number does not include the millions of children those who were aborted would have had.
We would be a much larger and stronger country, with better values and more conservative.
Kinda reminds me of the “Rosa Parks” thingy.
Staged for media optics.
I wasn’t going to flame her.. I don’t know how this became Abortion Rights but the Original Suit was About Getting the Husband’s Consent for an Abortion I believe!!! I’m glad she couldn’t get the Abortion..
The left really used Ms. Corvey-big time!
If I understand correctly, Sandra Cano’s daughter also lived to be born, both Norma McCorvey and Sandra Cano and those daughters were all involved in some capacity with Operation Rescue. If my recollection is faulty, I welcome correction.
OTOH, without Roe v Wade, think how many more Liberal F-wads there’d be, voting to support all sorts of Dimocrat agenda
Through all of this blame casting we forget the seven men who conspired to push this agenda. Harry Blackmun wrote this opinion before they had engaged Norma McCorvey as a complainant. He wrote it, I was told the summer before the case was heard.
The seven men with the opinion this should be passed were:
Harry Blackmun
Warren E. Burger
William O. Douglas
William J. Brennan
Potter Stewart
Thurgood Marshall
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
The dissenters were:
William Rehnquist & Byron White
These are the men (not women) who were truly responsible for the abortion disaster we have today. Remember these names. Norma McCorvey & Sandra Cano were used in a bad way. The seven men who pulled this together are to blame.
Don’t you think it’s time we put a stop to it?
People get outraged by 911 and rightfully so, but everyday in the US over 3000 precious babies made in the image of God are killed.
Operation Rescue’s Randall Terry began meeting with Norma Mccorvey. Eventually those meetings helped lead her to salvation in Christ. Its a wonderful story of redemption
And no need to import foreign labor.
Not to flame her, but the jist of the argument was she was denied an abortion. So of course she hadn’t had one.
Ping
OR’s Rev. Mr. Flip Benham also played a very key role in leading her to Christ.
Sigh guess I confused the two. I heard how Mccorvey became a Christian years ago.
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