Posted on 06/30/2022 2:25:33 PM PDT by Morgana
The eldest daughter of the woman who brought Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court in 1973 said that her mother, known by the pseudonym “Jane Roe,” would be “devastated” by Friday’s Supreme Court ruling overturning the landmark decision.
Melissa Mills, the daughter of Norma McCorvey, also known as Jane Roe, said she was in “disbelief” when news broke of the court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which eliminated the constitutional right to abortion and handed states authority to drastically limit or ban the procedure.
“I was in disbelief. I was devastated,” Mills said during an appearance on CNN’s “New Day.” “I knew it was coming, but it was just too real that it really happened.”
She added that her mother, who passed away of heart failure in 2017 at the age of 69, would be “devastated” to see that her grandchildren would not have the same rights that she fought for just under 50 years ago.
“My mother would just be devastated, just hard to believe now her grandkids are going to have the same rights as as we’ve had for 50 years,” Mills said.
When asked by host Brianna Keilar what her concerns were as a mother, Mills replied that it was the same concerns her mother worried about.
“Someone telling you what to do with your reproductive rights and someone having their hand on you, telling you when and where and how you need to live your life,” she said.
“As a woman, we have to take care of ourselves and sometimes we have to take care of ourselves in that way, and that should be our decision, nobody else’s. Nobody, especially not a man,” she added.
McCorvey, a working-class mother of two, became pregnant with a third child in Texas and wanted to terminate her pregnancy. However, she could not legally do so under the state’s abortion ban.
Through her legal representation, she was able to take her case to the Supreme Court as an anonymous plaintiff under the alias Jane Roe. She gave birth to Mill’s youngest sister Shelley Lynn Thornton before the final ruling.
Mills said she was proud of her mother for her work and for “going through and helping everyone.”
“It wasn’t just herself, she helped all women,” Mills said.
Following the decision, McCorvey became an evangelical Christian and later a Roman Catholic, declaring herself anti-abortion rights in the 1990s, according to The Washington Post.
In the documentary “AKA Jane Roe,” released on FX in 2020, she revealed on her deathbed that she had never fully supported the anti-abortion rights movement, saying that she “took their money and they put me out in front of the camera and told me what to say.”
Last Friday Norma McCorvey was VINDICATED!
Melissa Mills DO SO COMPLETELY SHUT UP!
that’s a lie, she because a Christian later in life and wanted it overturned
You’re right. Norma McCorvey regretted her involvement and wanted it overturned.
The Left only knows how to deceive and lie.
Yep. We all know these people just make stuff up, completely untethered from reality. Just spouting nonsense that they want to be true, but isn’t. Adam Shiff, Nancy Pelosi. It’s the hallmark of liberalism.
Her daughter chooses to sully her dead mother’s name, and what she stood for in her later years. She should be ashamed of herself.
In the documentary “AKA Jane Roe,” released on FX in 2020, she revealed on her deathbed that she had never fully supported the anti-abortion rights movement, saying that she “took their money and they put me out in front of the camera and told me what to say.”
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Takes until the last paragraph for the article to bother mentioning the mother was against Roe later in life.
Yep. The Truth to the Left is Whatever they Want the Truth To Be.
Oh wait , YAWN
Complete and utter BS.
Her mother died pro-life.
‘The TRUE STORY of Norma McCorvey AKA Jane Roe: Pro-Choice Poster Child to Pro-Life Christian’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGaTXefHQp4
Very nice implementation of the BARF ALERT tag.
n00bs here: PAY ATTENTION and do likewise.
“Daughter of ‘Jane Roe’ says mother would be ‘devastated’ by Roe decision”
What does that have to do with anything?
The Decision did NOT eliminate an Constitutional right to abortion. It recognized that there is no such right in the Constitution. When you hang a halloween mask on your Christmas tree and someone removes it he is not eliminating the right to have a halloween mask.
I think something should exist therefore it exists.
Didn’t Norma give up her two children? She wasn’t a very good mother by any means, which she admitted, I believe.
From what I've read, she was in and out of trouble as a young girl. Was sent to reform school. Had problems with her sexual identity on and off her whole life. Married at 16, she got pregnant the first time. She eventually divorced her husband claiming he was abusive. After the birth of the first child, Norma got into drugs, and drinking. Her mother was allegedly an alcoholic, but I have no idea if that was ever confirmed. Her mother took custody of the first child. She and her second husband raised the girl for most of her childhood. The second child she had, she gave up for adoption. When she got pregnant the third time, she sought the help of an adoption lawyer. This guy saw her as an opportunity to challenge the abortion laws of Texas. She was nothing more than a useless idiot for the left. They freely admitted that they saw her as someone who was pliable, and would do what she was told. I'm sure she was taken care of financially throughout their dirty work. At some point she worked at an abortion clinic, and it was during this time that she started questioning her original stance on abortion. She became active in anti-abortion causes, and tried to get Roe v. Wade overturned in 2005.
Aside from being a lie...
Sounds like she’s the daughter of Jane Roe, not Norma McCorvey...
Noted!
Let’s exhume her and urinate on her more, why don’t we? /s
If I read the story right, wouldn’t this “daughter” be the eldest child that wasn’t even raised by McCorvey, but her grandmother, or if that was a boy, the adopted child? She wouldn’t be here if she was the 3rd child
Yes, the daughter who has spoken out was her first, and I couldn’t find out how long she was with the grandmother. From what I read, Norma went to an abortion clinic for her third pregnancy, but left in disgust at the condition of the place. I’ve read that she gave birth to three children, but little is known about the last two.
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