[6] Soon after, she began identifying as a lesbian. "In truth, McCorvey has long been less pro-choice or pro-life than pro-Norma," said the author of the Vanity Fair story Joshua Prager. The short life of Henry McCluskey can be re-assembled from the sprawling mess inside the Dallas homenot to mention in the shed and garage, and on the back porchwhere Henrys sister, Barbara McCluskey Gouge, now lives. The 69-year-old admitted in a death bed confession that her religious conversion and renouncement of her sexuality were financially motivated. DALLAS Norma McCorvey, whose legal challenge under the pseudonym "Jane Roe" led to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision that legalized abortion but who later became an outspoken opponent of the procedure, died Saturday. For years she also maintained publicly that the Roe pregnancy was the result of . [2] McCorvey told the press that she was "Jane Roe" soon after the decision was reached, stating that she had sought an abortion because she was unemployable and greatly depressed. Their needs were specific. Young Norma McCorvey had not wanted to further a cause; she had simply wanted an abortion and could not get one in Texas. Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey (September 22, 1947 February 18, 2017), also known by the pseudonym "Jane Roe", was the plaintiff in the landmark American legal case Roe v. Wade in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that individual state laws banning abortion were unconstitutional. "[43] According to tax documents, McCorvey received at least $450,000 from anti-abortion groups during her years as an activist. An unwanted pregnancy had become a career. Gonzalez had lost her. Telling The Guardian that President Obama is guilty of "child killing," she also said, "When I got arrested, I loved it! The author knocks on the doors bearing the darkest symbols, behind which lie guns, ammo, antisemitism, antiabortion dogmaand a belief in the coming civil war. [35][36] She is also the subject of Joshua Prager's 2021 book, The Family Roe: An American Story.[37][38]. But as Beyer would soon realize, Finchs past wasnt what she claimedand Beyers own difficult history was up for the taking. During her third pregnancy, McCorvey hoped to get an abortion. [14] Her doctor, Richard Lane, suggested that she consult Henry McCluskey, an adoption lawyer in Dallas. She speaks more quietly than her biological mother does, but has her same soulful eyes. And long after the Supreme Court, in 1973, granted it (and all American women) the right to an abortion free of interference by the State, McCorvey lived off her pseudonymous self, first as a pro-choice advocate and thenafter an evangelical minister named Flip baptized her in a Texas swimming poolas a professional pro-lifer. About Connie Gonzales. Norma McCorvey better known as the plaintiff "Jane Roe" from the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion - who then later famously converted and became outspoken against . The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. It was incredible. And although she spent most of her nights in the numb comfort of lesbian bars, McCorvey found herself, at 22, single and pregnant for a third time. She is an actress, known for I Was Wrong (2007), Lake of Fire (2006) and Roe vs. Roe: Baptism by . [13], While working at a restaurant, Norma met Woody McCorvey (born 1940), and she married him at the age of 16 in 1963. He is writing a book about Roe v. Wade. McCorvey, who was at centre of Roe v. Wade, dead at 69. As Way recalls it, the two of them talked over a plate of fried zucchini, and McCorvey lamented the place she has come to occupy in the vast constellation of abortion activism, pro and con. Heres what you need to know about Roe v. Wadeand the woman behind it: Norma McCorvey, better known by the pseudonym Jane Roe.. Never., At a diner in Smithville, two springs ago, Norma McCorvey sat at a table opposite the actress Erin Way, whose on-screen pregnancy she sought to save in Doonby. [13] Her mother disputed that version of the events, and said that McCorvey had agreed to the adoption. Norma McCorvey. Mary disputed that. It also gave states the right to ban most abortions in the third trimester.). At the time, McCorvey was game; she and her partner, Connie Gonzalez, were tired of cleaning homes. When the Associated Press asked McCorvey for a comment, she said, Im horrified.. Wow: Norma McCorvey (aka "Roe" of Roe v Wade) revealed on her deathbed that she was paid by right-wing operatives to flip her stance on reproductive rights. (Allred says that she was at no time affiliated with the foundation, adding, I wouldnt raise money for an organization and allow it to be siphoned off to an individual.) McCorvey eventually cut her ties with the Jane Roe FoundationIt didnt go anywhere, says the Texas lawyer Tom Goff, who helped create itand in 1990 she established a new one, the Jane Roe Womens Center, self-described as a multi-purpose center for low-income women, with offices in San Francisco and, later, Dallas. She wore the jeans, says Taylor, if a customer was girly, the dress if she was a cute butch. Norma continued to have relationships with men too. In 1970, when McCorvey was five months pregnant, she signed an affidavit that she later claimed to have never read. In her 1994 memoir I Am Roe, McCorvey offered a less cynical view of her place in the fight for reproductive rights. Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, never had the abortion she was seeking. Destructive 'Super Pigs' From Canada Threaten the Northern U.S. Did an Ancient Magnetic Field Reversal Cause Chaos for Life on Earth 42,000 Years Ago? McCorvey's father, Olin Nelson, a TV repairman, left the family when McCorvey was 13 years old, and her parents subsequently divorced. Reportedly, the brunch at Baci was a benefit for the Jane Roe Foundation. Her daughter, Melissa, was with her when she passed away. In September 1969, the month she turned 22, McCorvey became pregnant for a third time. Norma Leah McCorvey, campaigner, born 22 September 1947; died 18 February 2017, Plaintiff known as Jane Roe in the groundbreaking 1973 US legal case over the right to abortion, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Soon after, McCorvey met Connie Gonzalez. [6], Norma McCorvey died of heart failure in Katy, Texas, on February 18, 2017, at the age of 69. Shelley Lynn Thornton has said she has no regrets about not meeting her biological mother. They took a motel room in Oklahoma City, but were caught when a maid walked in on the two girls kissing and reported them to the police. (Roe did, however, permit states to impose regulations in the second trimester, including who could perform abortions and where. A new documentary's portrayal of Jane Roe from the famous abortion case rings hollow to her longtime friends. They were quickly a couple, two strong, gay women from underprivileged families. Included in the documentary also are scenes from the presidential election night in 2016, depicting McCorveys disappointment as Democrat Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump. In addition, Benham says he saw to it that she and Miss Connie had enough money maybe $200 a week. McCorvey received more when Thomas Nelson, a Christian publisher, bought the rights to retell her story, in 1997. In a documentary that is premiering on Friday and is already making waves, McCorvey admits that her infamous reversal on abortion rights was all an act. 10 Important Events in Norma McCorvey's Life 1. But in new footage, McCorvey alleges she was . No one wanted to hire a pregnant woman. Published by Dallas Morning News on Jul. Norma McCorvey had little more to her name than a pseudonym. He murders babies. That Obama won re-election and will likely be able to appoint one or more pro-choice Supreme Court justices all but ensures that McCorvey will have *Roe*and Jane Roeto rail against for years to come. She referred with contempt to her daughters sexual activity (She was a die-hard whore), which was primarily but not exclusively lesbian from a young age. A black-and-white photograph of McCorveya girl of seven in cats-eye glasses crouched beside a German shepherd on a dirt roadstood in a frame. [15][17], On May 22, 2020, a documentary titled AKA Jane Roe aired on FX, describing McCorvey's life and the financial incentives to change her views on abortion. And when, in 1995, she accepted Jesus and disavowed Roe (and her homosexuality, too), McCorveys life of advocacy began againjust on the other sidewith two more foundations, another book and hundreds more speeches about sex and religion, those same two forces that had formed not only Jane Roe but Norma McCorvey, too. Advertising Notice For the sex she enjoyed with a run of girlfriends while in state custody was nothing like the sex she had glimpsed at homemost often between a drunk Mary and someone other than Olin. And in the days following, McCorvey, in her own telling, was furious and got drunk, and pounded my fists into my [pregnant] belly in frustration.. Whereas in 1976, the Southern Baptist Convention supported most abortions, it opposed most abortions in 1980. [30], In 2004, McCorvey sought to have the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, saying that there was now evidence that the procedure harms women, but the case was ultimately dismissed in 2005. He says . I never go anywhere w/o Ms. Connie, she wrote to a Catholic organization that had invited her to speak in New Zealand in 2000. The 69-year-old, who had been ill for some. The "now" she is referencing is in fact 2017, the year McCorvey died. McCorvey, who died from heart failure at the age of 69, revealed her role as an anti-abortion advocate was largely funded by ultra-conservative groups such as Operation Rescue. McCorvey said in her first biography: I wasnt the wrong person to become Jane Roe, I wasnt the right person to become Jane Roe. Early in February 2017, Norma McCorvey the famed plaintiff "Jane Roe" in monumental U.S. Supreme Court abortion rights case Roe v. Wade was near death. The files in the garage were set to be thrown out. Hers was not a happy household. Wild.. McCorvey, Norma Leah Nelson [Jane Roe] (1947-2017). Roe v. Wade was a watershed for women in general but irrelevant for Ms. McCorvey in particular, wrote the Washington Posts Emily Langer in McCorveys 2017 obituary. But back when Nixon was president, McCorvey landed the role of a lifetime: that of Jane Roe, the plaintiff in what would become one of the most divisive legal actions in American history. The Australian best known for directing a U.K. TV series about transgender kids, Born in the Wrong Body, was less interested in ideology, and simply curious about the woman at the center of the. Crossing Over Ministry was a Catholic group devoted to reversing Roe v. Wade. McCorvey moved into the house on Cactus Lane that Gonzalez had bought with money earned from spackling and painting. (The network paid her 60 percent of 5 percent of the films gross; as of 2003, the film had earned her $10,613.) McCorvey saved copies of the homily. Nonetheless, McCorvey remained all but unknown, a woman of 25, living with Gonzalez, 41, in Dallas. And she told me about the Supreme Court decision. I helped Norma create and run Roe No More Ministries. GONZALES, Connie 2/5/1931 - 6/26/2015 Passed away in Dallas, TX with her loving fur babies Jesse, Eddie, and Louie by her side. Nick Sweeney, who directed the film, told the Los Angeles Times its goal was not to add to the abortion debate, but to explore more of the life of a woman who he described as an enigmatic person at the center of this very divisive issue. The attorney for Norma McCorvey - aka Jane Roe of the infamous Supreme Court abortion ruling Roe v. Wade - has a warning for viewers of the upcoming FX documentary "AKA Jane Roe". At McCorveys First Communion, a priest spoke of her complicity in the evil of Roe, and of her subsequent transformation. After giving birth to a daughter in 1965, she began struggling with drug and alcohol abuse, eventually relinquishing custody to her mother (though whether she did so voluntarily is up for debate). But it also helped to turn abortion into the great foe of American consensus. She dropped out of high school at 14, married at 16, and divorced her abusive husband . She adds, Daddy had to get on the stand and identify some clothes. McCorvey's mother was raised a Pentecostal but McCorvey's father led her and the family as Jehovah's Witnesses. As Gloria Allred points out, Its a career choice as well. After resigning her position at A Choice for Women and shuttering her second foundation, McCorvey helped to create a new Texas nonprofit, Roe No More Ministry, devoted to undoing all she had previously stood for. But in the mid-1980s, as America's anti-abortion movement became increasingly violent, she aligned . More than once, I tried to make up for it with an added check, but it was never fair. Later in life, McCorvey stated that she was no longer a lesbian,[39] although she later said that her religious conversion to Evangelical Christianity and renouncement of her sexuality were financially motivated. I would deliver the baby, Lane, now 75, recalls. [41][42], Robert Schenck, a formerly anti-abortion evangelical pastor who worked with McCorvey, verified the claim made in the documentary of McCorvey receiving financial compensation. (Mary acknowledged that she herself was a heavy drinker.) She wed for the first time at age 16 but divorced her husband when he became physically abusive. [2], Later in her life, McCorvey became an Evangelical Protestant and in her remaining years, a Roman Catholic, and took part in the anti-abortion movement. Frank Pavone of the organization Priests for Life. Her death was confirmed by Joshua Prager, a journalist currently at work on a book about Roe v. Wade. [14][15] After Melissa's birth, McCorvey developed a severe drinking and drug problem. Norma told her doctor, Richard Lane, that she did not want to bring this pregnancy to term. In 1967, she gave birth to a second child, whom she put up for adoption. And although she spent most of her nights in the numb comfort of lesbian. They also successfully argued for continuing to designate the plaintiff as the anonymous Jane Roe. The hearing began in May and ended on June 17 when a three-judge panel struck down the Texas abortion statutes. Norma McCorvey, known as Jane Roe in the US Supreme Court's decision on Roe v Wade, shocked the country in 1995 when she came out against abortion. She told her birth mother that she "would never, ever thank her for not aborting me". Terms of Use [12][13][11], Later, McCorvey was sent to the State School for Girls in Gainesville, Texas, on and off from ages 11 to 15. Mary now suffers from dementia. . [5], McCorvey was born in Simmesport, Louisiana,[6] and spent her early childhood at her family's residence in Lettsworth in Pointe Coupee Parish. Norma McCorvey (left), the plaintiff in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case, with her attorney, Gloria Allred, outside the Supreme Court in April 1989, when the court heard arguments in a case that could. A man named David Hovila drugged and then shot McCluskey three times. Unable to obtain an abortion, she gave birth to a baby girl on June 2, 1970. Privacy Statement https://t.co/XBwvPKmSqU. Her parents, Olin and Mary Nelson, had pledged themselves to Jehovah when she was a girl, and McCorvey and her brother had knocked on doors in east Texas with religious literature, hocking thou shalt notsabortion among them. There she met the feminist lawyer Gloria Allred. Roe has been her life, but its no longer much of a living. Norma was soon gone as welloff to a Catholic boarding school and then, after minor brushes with the law, briefly to a reform school. McCorvey thus became, ironically, a symbol of the right to a procedure that she herself never underwent. In 1998, McCorvey redefined herself yet again, converting to Roman Catholicism after instruction by Fr. And she could not afford to travel to any of the six states where abortion was legal: Alaska, California, Hawaii, New York, Oregon, and Washington. On May 19, the LA Times published a bombshell: An upcoming FX documentary would reveal . He would then pick up the baby and deliver it to the adoptive parents. McCorvey was interested in an abortion, not an adoption, but she agreed to meet with McCluskey, visiting him in January 1970. Since 2006, according to the State Bar of Texas, she has chosen not to pay her occupation taxes and annual dues, and is no longer licensed. Within a year, he and Norma were married, and Norma was pregnant. An alcohol-fueled affair at 19 begat a second child. But in truth McCorvey has long been less pro-choice or pro-life than pro-Norma. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Connie Gonzalez lived for about 35 years with McCorvey, . (The Wade in Roe v. Wade was Dallas County district attorney Henry Wade, the named defendant.) She allowed McCorvey to move back in. A name that grew to also signify courage. She told the press that she had become pregnant after being raped, filing away the yellowing newspaper accounts of her interviews in the boxes she left with Connie. . The explosive film, which runs a tight hour and 15 minutes, tells a tragic story about a woman who became the poster girl for two sides of an ongoing political debate. Todays final opinion, also by Alito, closely echoes the leaked draft, arguing that the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives.. Testifying before the Senate in 1998, she said: I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life undoing the law that bears my name. She petitioned the supreme court to undo the Roe v Wade decision, but it rejected her appeal. Religion fell in line, too. The older woman has heard that the younger woman, her neighbor Lucy Mae, may be seeking an abortion. and Gonzalez was later critical of McCorvey, calling her a "phony" to Vanity Fair. When told she. Still, there remains the big temptation on the pro-life side to view this person as a trophy, says Pavone. Gonzalez, she would recall, covered her with her body. The ashes of her father, in a blue-glass urn, sat beside figurines of Jesus and J.F.K. But the real Jane Roe, Norma McCorvey, who has died aged 69 of heart failure, was an unlikely heroine, unwilling to take the spotlight and uncomfortable with it when she finally did. I felt like I was high. Gonzalez remembers clearly the advice she gave her partner right away: to stop getting pregnant, so that she could have a better life.. But right awayinstantly, Benham recallsMcCorvey would come over and ask us to pray for her . By then, notes Joshua Prager for the Atlantic, she and Coffee had made Roe into a class-action suit demonstrating the case for the constitutional right of all Americans to determine the path of their own lives. In July 2004, Gonzalez suffered her stroke. 2. It took four people to raise me, says Melissa, now 47, referring to Norma and Connie and Mary and Marys second husband, a trucker named Raymond Sandefur. McCorvey's life had been hard. Gouge says that her brother left behind 149 clients. She said this was the happiest time of her childhood, and every time she was sent home, would purposely do something bad to be sent back. But Woody, she wrote, could be violent, and Norma divorced him even before the birth of their daughter, Melissa, in May of 1965. For the generic placeholder name, see, U.S. Senate hearings for the confirmation, "Norma McCorvey: Of Roe, Dreams and Choices", "Roe v Wade's Jane Roe says she was paid to speak against abortion in shocking FX documentary", "Testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism and Property Rights", "Identity of 'Roe baby' revealed after decades of secrecy", "Miss Norma & Her Baby: Two Victims Who Got Away", "Norma McCorvey, plaintiff in Roe ruling who later became pro-life, dies", "Court rejects motion to overturn Roe v. Wade Sep 14, 2004", "Norma McCorvey, 'Jane Roe' of Roe v. Wade, dies", "The Epic Life of the Woman Behind Roe v. Wade", "The Fascinating Story Of The Woman At The Center Of Roe v. Wade", "In Death, Jane Roe Finally Tells The Truth About Her Life", "The woman behind 'Roe vs. Wade' didn't change her mind on abortion. [45], Pavone, who had a decades long association with McCorvey, said that she was not on the payroll of his organization, Priests for Life, and said that he did not believe that McCorvey's activism was disingenuous saying, "I can even see her being emotionally cornered to get those words out of her mouth, but the things that I saw in 22 years with herthe thousands and thousands of conversations that we hadthat was real. 2023 Smithsonian Magazine Last week, FX premiered AKA Jane Roe, a documentary on the life of Norma McCorvey, the woman who was the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade. Two months later, according to a letter from her lawyer, McCorvey made arrangements to have yet another new foundation, Crossing Over Ministry, take ownership of the Dallas home she shared with Gonzalez. 2023 Cond Nast. Norma McCorvey: Early Life Norma McCorvey was born in Louisiana in 1947. She experienced a short-lived marriage as a teenager before a decades-long relationship with girlfriend Connie Gonzalez. The store manager, Connie Gonzalez, caught her but didn't report her to the police. Mary sought custody, McCorvey wrote, because she didnt want the child raised by a lesbian. [4] However, in the Nick Sweeney documentary AKA Jane Roe, McCorvey said, in what she called her "deathbed confession", that "she never really supported the antiabortion movement" and that she had been paid for her anti-abortion sentiments. And I said, That's fantastic. And she said, But youre a Catholic. And I said, So what? (McCorvey had relationships with both men and women but self-identified as a lesbian.) She had another realization there too: Sex was not profane. Her eyes were light blue and cloudy, her white hair pulled back in a braid. There was something else in it for McCorvey, something practical. Connie Gonzalez Neither side of abortion debate emerges well from McCorvey story Norma McCorvey, aka Jane Roe of Roe v Wade was exploited by elements of both sides Obituary: Norma. She received death threats, and was spat at on the street. Her life was painful . McCorveys daughter Melissa recalls that McCorvey would introduce Connie by saying, This is my aunt, or This is my godmother, or This is my cousin.. I feel a womans got the right to choose. And she said, Well, Im Jane Roe. And I said, Yeah, and Im the pope., McCorvey started publicizing her story in the 1980s, advocating for the right to choose. Soon after giving birth a third time, as Roe v. Wade made its way through the courts, McCorvey met and began a long-term relationship with Connie Gonzalez. You can only take so much of nerviness. Roe is undoubtedly the most familiar legal ruling in the minds of most Americansnot for nothing did Katie Couric ask Sarah Palin in a 2008 interview to cite any Supreme Court case except that one. (She alleged, for example, that her mother kidnapped her daughter, when in fact she had taken custody of her at McCorveys urging.) When she left her baby with her mother, to take a weekend trip, Mary charged her with abandonment, and soon afterwards made her sign what Norma thought were insurance papers; she had in fact agreed to let her mother adopt Melissa, and was then barred from the family home. Coffee and Weddington still live in Texas, though their paths have diverged. Joshua Prager writes for publications including Vanity Fair, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. 'AKA Jane Roe' Is Her Attempt at Atonement. (Any case of this magnitude would inevitably take more time than a pregnant woman has.) I almost forgot i have a one thousand dollar fee, she texted in August in response to a request for an interview. . The district court ruled in the pairs favor but dismissed their request to stop enforcing the states old abortion laws, leading both Wade and McCorveys team to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. McCorvey had been taught to deprecate abortion even before she knew what it was. Seated in a folding chair outside her home, Gonzalez puffed on a cigarette and maintained flatly that the shooting had never occurred. A memorial mass will be held 7/10/2015 at St. Monica Catholic Church at 11:00am. I was her spiritual guide for 22 years, received her into the Catholic Church, kept regular contact, spoke with her the day she died, and conducted her funeral. Connie Gonzalez was also part of that ministry. And as the years passed, McCorvey helped create one and then another Jane Roe foundation, watched Holly Hunter portray her on TV, wrote her first autobiography (high on cocaine, Valium and pot, she told me) and gave hundreds of speechestalks all the better for the speaking lessons lawyer Gloria Allred arranged for her. She added, This issue is the only thing I live for. McCorvey had come to visit briefly in the Dallas trailer park on Fadeway Street, where Mary had been living. But the state appealed the decision immediately, so for the time being the statutes remained law. The landmark decision marked a milestone in womens rights. I felt all warm inside.. Then they used her story to push the same line on vulnerable Americans. Publicly, the pro-choice movement more or less shrugged. Before long, says Benham, they were calling one another Flipper and Miss Norma. In July, McCorvey accepted Jesus as her savior. . I told her I was going to take [Melissa] if she didnt straighten out, she said. Your Privacy Rights She had a thin nose and thin lips, an oval face with a high forehead and sunken chin, a poof of thick brown hair, and a voice loud and husky. And she has played Jane Roe every which way, venturing far from the original script to wring a living from the issue that has come to define her existence. However, the claim she has long madethat, in the days and years after Roe, she sought to remain anonymous, staying mum until a television interview 11 years lateris false. She is not a professional actress. Norma McCorvey was 21 and living in Dallas in 1969 when she became pregnant for the third time. Norma McCorvey, also . According to McCorveys account, Coffee told her that, regardless, it was too late. For several years after Roe, McCorvey lived quietly with her girlfriend, Connie Gonzales. As individuals across the country reckon with the prospectof a post-Roe America, the story of the court case that first codified the constitutional right to an abortion is making headlines once again. Sarah Weddington, a former classmate of Coffees at the University of Texas law school, had been urging Coffee to find a way to file suit against the abortion statutes in Texas. The documentary, called AKA Jane Roe, showing on FX, explores McCorveys tumultuous upbringing that entailed incidents of alleged abuse and neglect. As a result of McCorveys lie, more than 20 million babies have been aborted, Jack Nunn, of Ridgeway, Virginia, wrote to the Greensboro News & Record. [11][28], On August 17, 1998, McCorvey was received into the Catholic Church in a Mass celebrated by Father Edward Robinson and concelebrated by Father Frank Pavone, director of Priests for Life, at Saint Thomas Aquinas Church in Dallas. Norma McCorvey, the Texas woman behind the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, died Saturday morning at an assisted-living facility in Katy. Children are a miraclea gift from God!. A little bit of hell broke loose, recalls Charlotte Taft, an abortion-rights activist and the founder of the Routh Street Womens Clinic, in Dallas. Meilan Solly is Smithsonian magazine's associate digital editor, history. [27] She converted to Evangelical Protestantism and was baptized on August 8, 1995, by Benham, in a Dallas, Texas, backyard swimming poolan event that was filmed for national television. McCorvey remained largely aloof from the legal proceedings around Roe. The remaining justices deemed the Texas laws unconstitutional by a 4-to-3 majority. The anti-choice people are just turning into terrorists, McCorvey told the A.P. January 3, 2013 "I almost forgot i have a one thousand dollar fee," Norma McCorveyJane Roe of the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decisionwrote in a text message to Vanity Fair. Soon after giving birth a third time, as Roe v. With McCorvey's embrace of conservative religious values, she said she was no . [3] McCorvey stated then that her involvement in Roe was "the biggest mistake of [her] life". Born Norma Nelson in Simmesport, Louisiana, she had a difficult childhood. In September 1969, 21-year-old McCorvey became pregnant for the third time. This baby was adopted immediately by a family that has kept its identity private. But laws in her home state of Texas were highly restrictive, only allowing abortions if carrying the fetus to term threatened the mothers health. Now a name riddled in controversy since the release of a documentary entitled AKA Jane Roe this past spring. In 2004, McCorvey sought to have the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, saying that there was now evidence that the procedure harms women, but the case was ultimately dismissed in 2005.

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