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...careful scientist, Louis invariably claimed too much credit for finds made by Mary and others on his team, and he ascribed too much significance to each find. Endlessly charming, he attracted a retinue of adoring young women (including the future luminaries Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall), treating each, says Morell, "as if he were Paris handing Aph ro dite the prized apple." During World War II, he ran a British spy network against the Germans in East Africa. Later he used his intelligence skills against the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya...
Many antiabortionists certainly hope McCorvey's conversion is, in the words of Bill Price, president of Texans United For Life, "a defining point in the history of the battle against abortion." But as Weddington (who, tellingly, still refers to McCorvey as "Jane Roe") points out, Roe was a class action, and presumably not all of the people McCorvey represented have made the same journey as she. Moreover, if she does go on to work for Benham, McCorvey will undoubtedly be the first volunteer in Operation Rescue history to support a woman's right to a first-trimester abortion...
...charting her own course, coming to a position that accepts the need to allow early abortions while still mightily troubled at what they entail. In so doing, the real Jane Roe may have moved from denoting one side in a landmark case to representing the real, conflicted feelings that polls say are those of a majority of Americans...
...choice movement has taken a serious hit, at least symbolically: Norma McCorvey--the Jane Roe of the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion--joined the antiabortion group Operation Rescue, and was baptized by its leader. It was only a partial conversion, however: McCorvey says she still supports the right to an abortion during the first trimester, but not beyond...
OPERATION RESCUE Sweet-talks "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade into pro-life camp...