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Other performers included "Courtney Love," "Madonna" and "Norma Desmond." The celebration ended with dancing and an excursion to Lamont Library. Students planned a march through the stacks...
...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...
...always possible that under Benham's influence, McCorvey will move to a sharper antiabortion stance. She says her new friends are praying for that. They will also have to come to terms with her 26-year live-in relationship with a woman. "Norma will be set free from it," Benham has said, possibly indicating that McCorvey's new mentors, like her old ones, have their own agenda...
...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...
While her face would not be recognizable to most American, she has affected the lives of countless people in this country as the plaintiff in one of the most famous court cases in American history. She is Norma McCorvey, better known as Jane Roe, the woman who became the symbol for abortion rights in the landmark case Roe v. Wade...