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...McCorvey's lawyers ultimately proved to be more passionate about this decision than she. In the three years which ensued before the final Supreme Court decision, Weddington was able to create a case which led to the extension of the privacy rights of the 14th Amendment to include abortion rights. Ironically, the woman who became known as Jane Roe did not even end up taking advantage of these new rights by having an abortion. Instead, she gave her child up for adoption...
Still, being the namesake of such a landmark case carved out a good life for 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...
...recent actions of the woman who became known as Jane Roe are inconsequential, having become far removed from the ultimate significance of the case. She emphasizes the case was a class action decision, insuring the protection of abortion rights for a country of women clamoring for change in which McCorvey was simply a random representative. As a result, Weddington attests that whatever McCorvey decides in her personal, professional and political life does not reflect the views of most women who have benefited from the ruling, and should be ignored...
...much publicity as McCorvey has garnered from her seemingly radical change, she is in the process of compounding the image problems she has already created for herself. She seems enthusiastic about the Operation Rescue family into which she has been reborn, yet tries to satiate the disappointed pro-choice groups by saying that she is an antiabortion activist only in cases of women trying to abort after the first trimester. As McCorvey will learn, though, baptism into the ranks of Operation Rescue will not make first trimester abortion rights activists welcome her with open arms...
Consequently, in trying to appease both sides of the abortion debate, McCorvey has lost her legitimacy as a member of either. In fact, the only players who may gain from this controversy are pro-life citizens who do not support the violence of Operation Rescue but who think that women may regret a youthful or desperate desire to abort a child. McCorvey may be seen as an important example of this increased conservatism with age. Still, she is hardly the bastion of conservative family values, having lived most of her adult life as an open lesbian...