Norma McCorvey
Norma McCorvey
Norma Leah McCorvey, better known by the legal pseudonym "Jane Roe", was the plaintiff in the landmark American lawsuit Roe v. Wade in 1973. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual state laws banning abortion are unconstitutional. Later, McCorvey's views on abortion changed substantially; she is now a Roman Catholic active in the pro-life movement...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth22 September 1947
CountryUnited States of America
discredit people tried wonderful
They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, There's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children." ()
depend ministry mostly running
It's not easy. We mostly depend on the ministry for money, but the ministry is running out." ()
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Henry McCloskey, Jr, arranged the first initial meeting. And we met and we discussed, for the first time in my life, reproductive rights." ()
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Once you know the realities of abortion and what goes along with it, it stays with you. I've seen the clinic's freezer, full of fetuses." ()
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I will pray for each of them. I hope they don't have to see the things I've seen or experience the cries, the tears, the depression." ()
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We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.
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I did not go to the Supreme Court on behalf of a class of women. I wasn't pursuing any legal remedy to my unwanted pregnancy. I did not go to the federal courts for relief. I went to Sarah Weddington asking her if she knew how I could obtain an abortion. She and Linda Coffey said they didn't know where to get one. They lied to me just like I lied to them. Sarah already had an abortion. She knew where to get one. Sarah and Linda were just looking for somebody, anybody, to further their own agenda. I was their willing dupe. For this, I will forever be ashamed.
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It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.
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I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.
names want used
I used the name Jane Roe because I didnt want my personal name to be involved in it.
abortion feminist position
There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.
wade jane has-beens
I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.
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To young people, I would say, please listen to your parents. Do not have extramarital relationships, before you're married. It is a wrong thing to do." ()
I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me.