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'Roe vs Wade' legalized abortion in US 35 years ago by Fanny CarrierSun Jan 20, 1:12 AM ET Thirty-five years ago on Tuesday the US Supreme Court handed down a decision in the Roe versus Wade case, legalizing abortion and introducing some of the world's least restrictive abortion laws. On January 22, 1973, the nine Supreme Court justices voted seven to two that a law in Texas that banned abortion, except to save a woman's life, was unconstitutional under the right to personal privacy. It was a bombshell decision that galvanized religious opposition into action, and set the scene for...

Contact: Norma McCorvey, Crossing Over Ministry, 214-343-1069; Dr. Thomas Keinath, Senior Pastor, Calvary Temple International, 973-694-2938; Hector D. Ferrer, Creative Director, New Creations Drama Ministry, 201-928-4175 WAYNE, NJ., Oct. 8 /Christian Newswire/ -- Ms. McCorvey former "Roe" in Roe vs. Wade in 1971 challenged the abortion laws in Texas. On appeal, her case went before the Supreme Court. In 1973 the Supreme Court legalized abortion in his country. Ms. McCorvey, however, has never had an abortion. Moreover, in 1995 she accepted the LORD. Her conversion to Christianity inspired her to start Crossing Over Ministry where she serves as National Director. Her ministry...

As the plaintiff in that infamous Supreme Court case Roe vs. Wade, my life has been inextricably tied to the abortion issue. I once told a reporter, "This issue is the only thing I live for. I live, eat, breathe, think everything about abortion." Thirty-four years later, I am 100% pro-life. The Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold the federal ban on partial-birth abortion is the first step in overturning Roe vs. Wade. Banning the procedure - an act of infanticide where a scissors is jammed into the base of the infant's skull, a tube inserted and its brain sucked...

ITHACA NY--Following a thirty-three percent cut in its funding, the Cornell Coalition for Life was prevented from bringing pro-life activict Norma McCorvey to speak at Cornell, the Cornell Daily Sun reports. McCorvey is better known as Jane Roe, the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court case that created the right to abortion. In 1995, she converted to evangelical Christianity and founded an anti-abortion organization called Roe No More. McCorvey was scheduled to speak on campus, and the event was confirmed last year, the article says. However the University's Student Assembly Finance Committee cut the group's budget last...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a challenge to its landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion by the woman once known as "Jane Roe," who was at the center of the historic U.S. case. Without comment, justices declined to hear the appeal from Norma McCorvey and thus dodged a highly charged political debate for now. McCorvey's protest of Texas' abortion ban led to the Roe v. Wade ruling establishing a constitutional right to abortion. McCorvey, who says she now regrets her role in the decision, argued in court filings that the case should be heard again in light...

ASHINGTON, Feb. 22 - The United States Supreme Court announced today that it would hear arguments on Oregon's law authorizing doctors to help their terminally ill patients commit suicide, the only such state law in the country.The justices will hear arguments in the court term that begins this October. They will decide whether to overturn a ruling last May by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which upheld the law. The Bush administration has tried to overturn the law in the courts.Oregon is one of the few places in the world where people are allowed to...

'Jane Roe' Appeals To Supreme Court: Plaintiff In Landmark Abortion Case Seeking To Overturn 1973 DecisionThe woman known as "Roe" in the landmark case that struck down all state laws restricting abortion is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 1973 decision. As WorldNetDaily reported, Norma McCorvey began a quest in 2003 to reopen the case, based on changes in law and new scientific research that make the prior decision "no longer just." She cites the sworn testimony of more than 1,000 women who say they were hurt by abortion. At a news conference at the Supreme Court...

Norma McCorvey, who was "Jane Roe" in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that overturned all laws prohibiting abortion, will hold a press conference Tuesday, January 18, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time to say that she is filing what is known as a Motion 60 brief to overturn the decision. She announced this Monday night on Fox News Channel's "Hannity and Colmes." Her request rests on federal rules that allow an original party to request a ruling be vacated when factual and legal changes make the decision no longer just. McCorvey claims to have the testimony of over 1,000 women...

Norma McCorvey, who was "Jane Roe" in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that overturned all laws prohibiting abortion, will hold a press conference Tuesday, January 18, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time to say that she is filing what is known as a Motion 60 brief to overturn the decision. She announced this Monday night on Fox News Channel's "Hannity and Colmes." Her request rests on federal rules that allow an original party to request a ruling be vacated when factual and legal changes make the decision no longer just. McCorvey claims to have the testimony of over 1,000 women...

SPEARFISH - Throughout Norma McCorvey's life she has been struggling. Whether it was with alcoholism or coming to grips with abortion, she has fought all the way. The 22-year-old McCorvey was homeless, destitute and unwed when she found herself pregnant for the second time in 1969. Thinking she had only one option, she went to an illegal Dallas abortion clinic but was turned away. The abortionists had been raided just weeks before and would not terminate her pregnancy. While talking with an adoption lawyer, McCorvey was introduced to two young attorneys looking for a woman to sign on for a...

  Home | Previous Page | Source URL: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/sep/04091703.html LifeSite Daily News Friday September 17, 2004 Judge Admits "facts no longer matter" in Abortion Decisions McCorvey motion to overturn Roe v. Wade moves toward Supreme Court SAN ANTONIO, September 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Circuit Court judge has dismissed the motion brought forward by Norma McCorvey, known to legal history as "Roe" in Roe v. Wade, to overturn the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion in the US. However the judge, Edith Jones of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has made some surprising statements in her...

Roe no more, but still a voice on abortion Norma McCorvey resurfaces on other side of issue that has defined her life By THOMAS KOROSEC Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Dallas Bureau DALLAS -- Norma McCorvey is just one woman with an opinion about abortion. But that is not why the world continues to beat a path to the modest Dallas bungalow where she has lived for the past three decades. In 1973, McCorvey was the identity-shielded Jane Roe of the landmark Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion. Years later, after her much-publicized conversion to Christianity in 1995, she started...

A federal appeals court has agreed to hear a request from the woman formerly known as "Jane Roe" to reconsider the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion. Norma McCorvey, who joined with anti-abortion activists nearly 10 years ago, is seeking to have the decision overturned, citing what she says is more than 30 years of evidence that abortions are psychologically harmful to women.

Driving to work yesterday I was listening to a local Christian radio station, when I heard a message from Jane Roe, the "Roe" in "Roe v. Wade". Jane is now a devoted Christian who has spent years fighting the Roe v. Wade decision. Needless to say I was quite surprised until I listened to the entire piece, and gave it some serious consideration. Jane tells about having looked up the term "abortion" in a dictionary after the landmark decision was handed down in her now-famous case against Henry Wade. She says that once she realized fully what it was that...

The court suit to re-open Roe v Wade by the Jane Roe in the original case has been denied by a court in Texas. The court claims that she has waited too long to take action.

Norma McCorvey, the woman whose 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case helped make abortion legal in the United States, today petitioned to overturn the historic Roe v. Wade decision. Known for years as just Jane Roe, McCorvey (pictured right) filed the below affidavit in support of a motion in U.S. District Court in Dallas. McCorvey, 55, stated that the landmark case "was built upon false assumptions" and had "caused great harm to the women and children of our nation." McCorvey, who has been stridently pro-life for nearly 10 years, noted that when she filed her original lawsuit 30 years ago, she...

History In The Making: 'Roe' Files Motion to Re-Open Roe vs. Wade, the Landmark Case Legalizing Abortion 6/17/03 9:00:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Giles Hudson, 972-267-1111 ext. 223 or 469-774-6377 (cell), for The Justice Foundation DALLAS, June 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Norma McCorvey, the former "Roe" of Roe vs. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized abortion, is filing an historic motion today to re-open her case and request that it be overturned. The filing is based on changes in law and factual conditions since the high court handed down its decision 30 years ago. As a...

The woman known as "Roe" in the historic Supreme Court case that legalized abortion is filing a motion in federal court today to overturn the 1973 decision. The Roe v. Wade ruling should be set aside because of changes in law and new research that make the prior decision "no longer just," argues Allan E. Parker, Jr., lead attorney for the San Antonio, Texas-based Justice Foundation. Norma McCorvey Parker is representing the former "Jane Roe," Norma McCorvey, who has the right to petition for reopening the case because she was party to the original litigation. McCorvey announced in 1995 she...

<p>The story of Norma McCorvey is one where she both made history, and then changed her own course in one of the most dramatic reversals of opinion in history.</p> <p>Before becoming international famous - and perhaps infamous - as "Jane Roe" in the historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case regarding abortion, Norma McCorvey was born and reared in Simmesport.</p>

30 years after Roe, social rift persists Abortion numbers down, but emotional charge hasn't faded 01/21/2003 By SHERRY JACOBSON / The Dallas Morning News On a typical morning at The Fairmount Center, Dallas' oldest abortion clinic, the doctor and other staffers slip inside before dawn through the back door. Each patient's arrival through the front door is marked by a burst of activity on the sidewalk outside the small converted house in Oak Lawn. Several demonstrators, clutching Bibles, dissolve into a flurry of hands offering pamphlets and voices imploring the woman to change her mind and walk away from...