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Norma McCorvey, in her 1994 book I Am Roe, described a feminist leader's visit to the Dallas women's clinic where McCorvey toiled as a volunteer. Intimidated by the woman's success and poise, McCorvey tried to salvage her own sense of importance by revealing what she had told few others: "I'm the Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade." The woman, wrote McCorvey, "smiled and shook her head. 'No, no,' she said. 'I know who Jane Roe is. She wouldn't be here doing this kind of work...
...Jane Roe would never, never have done what McCorvey did last week: defect. On Tuesday she quit her job at Dallas' A Choice For Women clinic. On Thursday she announced that she had been baptized in a swimming pool by none other than Flip Benham, head of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue. She said she would be an Operation Rescue volunteer, "serving the Lord and helping women save babies." Said Sarah Weddington, one of the lawyers who recruited McCorvey and took Roe v. Wade to the Supreme Court: "When I first heard about it, I had to sit down...
Despite her years of work in clinics, she says she had never witnessed a second-trimester abortion until earlier this year. "It's shocking," she says, "and I got nauseous." Never one to shy from drama, the woman famous for not having an abortion put her feet in the stirrups and imagined what it would be like. "I said, 'Oh, God, what have I been doing?' From that moment I could not bring myself to go into the back of the clinic again...
This week, Operation Rescue baptized yet another new member. Through this latest conversion, the sometimes violent pro-life organization whose mission is the "rescue" of unborn fetuses managed yet another publicity coup. This time it was not brought on by gunfire on an abortion clinic, but instead by the identity of the woman who joined their ranks...
Other teaching hospitals are following similar strategies, with some variations. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, saw the managed-care wave coming and hatched a particularly wide array of responses. For one thing, it standardized purchasing of such supplies as knee braces and rods for broken bones. It orders in bulk and demands discounts. Meanwhile, Mayo has a thriving side business in newsletters, books and cd-roms...