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  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...

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com In a move hailed as a breakthrough by abortion opponents, a federal appeals court agreed to hear oral arguments in an attempt by the original plaintiff in Roe vs. Wade to overturn the landmark decision. Norma McCorvey Norma McCorvey – "Jane Roe" in the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case – wants to reopen the case that struck down all state laws restricting abortion, based on changes in law and new scientific research that make the prior decision "no longer just." As WorldNet Daily reported, a district court ruled it was too late for McCorvey to reopen the...

Lawyers seeking to overturn the 1973 landmark ruling that legalized abortion will get another day in court. In June, U.S. District Judge David Godbey of Dallas tossed out a motion to re-open and overturn the 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision. Friday afternoon, supporters of re-examining the ruling were ecstatic that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans had agreed to consider the motion. A hearing was scheduled for March 2. "It would have been a significant setback if they hadn’t agreed to even hear the case," said Dr. Virginia Armstrong, a retired Hardin-Simmons University political...

Kim Jeffries watched helplessly as her toddler toppled down a flight of stairs in his walker. She ran to scoop him up in her arms. But odd as it seemed, the prayer that surfaced was not for him. It was for what she thought of as her own fall from grace. "I remember praying, 'Forgive me, Lord,' " she says. A few years earlier — at 23, unmarried and pregnant — Jeffries had chosen an immediate solution to her dilemma. Abortion. But it would take her many years to climb out of a pit of guilt, shame and sadness to...

'Doe' of Doe v. Bolton Announces Historic Legal Effort at Press Conference 8/22/03 10:00:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor Contact: Anne Newman of The Justice Foundation, 210-771-0757 (cell) or 210-614-7157 ext. 208 News Advisory: "Doe" of Doe v. Bolton (companion case to Roe v. Wade) announces historic legal effort at press conference WHO: -- Sandra Cano, "Doe" in Doe v. Bolton -- the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that created abortion on demand and also led to the gruesome "partial-birth abortion" procedure WHAT: Sandra Cano, the "Doe" of the Doe v. Bolton abortion case -- the companion...

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...

"Roe" Appeals Roe v. Wade to 5th Circuit Court of Appeals 7/17/03 5:52:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Allan E. Parker of the Justice Foundation, 210-614-7157 DALLAS, July 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Norma McCorvey, the former Roe of Roe v. Wade, has filed a Notice of Appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals of the District Court's Order denying her Motion. Her attorney, Allan E. Parker, Jr., Justice Foundation CEO, stated: "Ultimately, the United States Supreme Court will determine whether Roe should be vacated because it is no longer just. As in Brown v. Board of Education...

Last month, justice blindly refused to look at plain facts. On June 17, Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" in ROE V. WADE, filed a motion to re-open her famous case and request that the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion-on-demand be overturned in light of new facts. But two days later, a federal district court dismissed her petition, ruling that it wasn't filed within a "reasonable time." Judge David Godbey wrote, "It is simply too late now, thirty years after the fact, for McCorvey to revisit that judgment." McCorvey's attorney, Allan Parker, thinks the judge misunderstands the case. "This is...

A federal district court has dismissed a request by the former plaintiff known as "Jane Roe" to reconsider the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion 30 years ago. Norma McCorvey, who joined the anti-abortion fight 10 years ago, filed the "motion for relief from judgment" Tuesday, asking the court to reopen Roe v. Wade and conduct a wide-ranging inquiry into scientific and anecdotal evidence she says shows abortion hurts women. The court dismissed McCorvey's request late Thursday, saying it wasn't made within a "reasonable time" after the 1973 judgment. "Whether or not the Supreme Court was infallible, its...

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...

'Roe' of 'Roe v. Wade' Joins Case to Block AbortionsBy Jeff JohnsonMarch 25, 2003 Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - More than 700 women -- including Norma McCorvey, the "Roe" of Roe v. Wade -- are expected to join a "friend of the court" brief in a case filed for consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court Monday. The lawsuit claims women are not provided with enough information by abortion clinics to give truly informed consent to the procedure and that some are even forced or tricked into having abortions against their will. "It is unjust and immoral to force or mislead any...

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...

<p>McCorvey is "Jane Roe," the pseudonym she assumed to remain anonymous as the lead plaintiff in the case that legalized abortion in the United States.</p> <p>"I'm very sad (about the anniversary)," she told CNN Interactive in a telephone interview. "But this year, I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad."</p>

U.S. Newswire 16 Jan 16:30 Norma McCorvey, Former 'Roe' of Roe v. Wade, and Her AttorneyAvailable for Interviews on 30 Years of Roe v. Wade To: National and Assignment desks Contact: Allan Parker of The Justice Foundation, 210-614-7157 (office) or 210-833-1119 (mobile) News Advisory: Due to health reasons, Norma McCorvey, the former "Roe" of Roe v. Wade is limiting her interviews on the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. However, her attorney, Allan Parker, CEO & founder of The Justice Foundation will be available for interviews in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 21, 22, and 23. Parker will be available...

Great News! "NJMS Physicians for Life" -- a new pro-life group has now been formed by medical students and faculty members at the New Jersey Medical School.Their inaugural effort is an open-assembly presentation by guest-speaker Norma McCorvey.  Please make an effort, if at all possible, to be there.  If you cannot be there in person, please do be with us in prayer on Friday, 23 August, at 1PM.  Free admission; contributions welcomed. Please mark your calendar now! For further details, please contact: Gloria Seo (NJMS Medical Student and Co-Founder of NJMS Physicians for Life)22 Maple St.Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632email: seogj@umdnj.educell (201)...