Posted on 02/18/2017 11:16:19 AM PST by Salvation
Norma McCorvey, who was the Jane Roe of the infamous Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court case legalizing virtually unlimited abortions, passed away today. McCorvey never had an abortion and eventually became pro-life and dedicated her life to overturning the horrible Supreme Court decision that bared her pseudonym.
McCorvey died today at an assisted-living facility in Katy, Texas. She was 69.
McCorvey never wanted an abortion — she was seeking a divorce from her husband — but young, pro-abortion feminist attorney Sarah Weddington used McCorvey’s case as a means of attempting to overturn Texas’ law making most abortions illegal. Weddington took the case all the way to the Supreme Court, which invalidated every pro-life state law in the nation protecting unborn children and the rest is history.
But most Americans don’t know that McCorvey, who was “pro-choice” on abortion at the time, became a pro-life advocate. She dedicated to reversing the Supreme Court case that bears her fictitious name, Jane Roe.
In a video, McCorvey explained her effort to obtain a legal abortion in the 1970s when facing an unplanned pregnancy. However, she never had an abortion and realized that her court case was the biggest mistake of her life and currently fights to stop abortion.
“Back in 1973, I was a very confused twenty-one year old with one child and facing an unplanned pregnancy,” she says in the ad. “At the time I fought to obtain a legal abortion, but truth be told, I have three daughters and never had an abortion.”
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“I think it’s safe to say that the entire abortion industry is based on a lie…. I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life undoing the law that bears my name,” McCorvey says.
She concludes the 60 second ad with the words: “You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.”
As pro-life attorney Casey Mattox wrote at LifeNews.com previously:
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 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.
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. Lemonade comes from lemons.
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.
I felt crushed under the truth of this realization. I had to face up to the awful reality. Abortion wasn't about 'products of conception'. It wasn't about 'missed periods'. It was about children being killed in their mother's wombs. All those years I was wrong. Signing that affidavit, I was wrong. Working in an abortion clinic, I was wrong. No more of this first trimester, second trimester, third trimester stuff. Abortion — at any point — was wrong. It was so clear. Painfully clear.
Just like all the other fetuses - except she was a post-birth fetus.
God bless her soul. She worked hard to overturn that abomination that was perpetrated supposedly on her behalf.
“McCorvey never wanted an abortion — she was seeking a divorce from her husband — but young, pro-abortion feminist attorney Sarah Weddington used McCorvey’s case as a means of attempting to overturn Texas’ law making most abortions illegal. Weddington took the case all the way to the Supreme Court, which invalidated every pro-life state law in the nation protecting unborn children and the rest is history.”
The biggest travesty ever committed in the history of our Nation...including 0bama! That predatory ‘lawyer’ should’ve been strung up years ago.
Yep. I’m MEAN that way when it comes to killing babies.
RIP. Praise God for how her life changed. She was young, was used by others and bears no guilt for the outcome of the case. The murderers are the abortionist themselves and those who are cheerleaders for abortion
Her book shows not only how she was used and discarded but also God’s Grace through Christ. Maddening, heart-breaking and edifying.
That article is full of lies. Read the article I originally posted. Don’t believe the msm.
Obviously. That was why I posted it.
I looked up that attorney. She is still alive and living in Texas.
She must have a very, very dark heart for not understanding the millions and millions of American lives lost, she is responsible for. It’s so sad that any human being can be that dark hearted.
CGato
Interesting that NO ONE has EVER researched her or EXPOSED her after DECADES.
Hmmm....
may she rest in peace.. I met her once about 12 yrs. ago.
Lord Jesus Christ, rest the soul of Thy servant Norma with the saints and the angels, and bless the pro-life Americans.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
I spoke with Norma several times. Bought her dinner in LA. Hired her to speak at two churches in Los Angeles. I am heart-broken over this. Norma tried so hard to reverse Roe v Wade, only to be told by the court that she didn’t have standing to challenge the damnable decision rendered in her “name”.
Rest in peace.
RIP
And no one should blame her, they would have just picked another test case who also would have been called Jane Roe and the prick Justices would have ruled the same way.
She was confirmed into the Catholic Church Aug 17, 1998 by Father Frank Pavone, the Director of Priests for Life.
Oh, I know she turned away. But she was also thrown away, in the manner of Cindy Sheehan. That’s the left; when your function wanes, you’re toast.
True!
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