Word: flips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
Opponents also alleged that Fried has"flip-flopped" his views on a woman's right to anabortion...
...McCorvey. She was the object of much media attention, living off of royalties of her book I Am Roe. However, while being the house celebrity at a pro-choice group where she worked in Texas, she clearly harbored some ambivalence about abortion rights, ultimately befriending a man named Flip in the office next door, who just happened to be the leader of Operation Rescue...
...same time, the signs do not look good for her long and happy life within the anti-abortion movement. Already, she has not been accepted by many members of Operation Rescue for this condemnation of abortion only after the first trimester, and has won little support beyond Flip and his closest friends...
...Reynolds paid her $50 for sexual intercourse, sometimes $100; when Reynolds called her at home, she referred to him as "Stan" to disguise his identity from her family. On at least one occasion, Heard said, another Reynolds aide, Sophia Green, joined Reynolds and Heard in bed. Why the repeated flip flops on Heard's story? "There are any number of rumors flying around Chicago, which is finding the titillation of this case irresistible," says TIME Chicago correspondent Julie Grace. "Some say she's still in love with him, some say she fears she's in danger, and some...