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...years she kept a low profile--in part to protect her privacy and in part because, as she would later admit, the famous pregnancy had actually resulted from romance, not rape. But even after going public in 1989 to help fight the Supreme Court nomination of anti-Roe judge Robert Bork, she felt ill-matched with her supposed sisters, who managed to throw a 20th anniversary party for Roe v. Wade in Washington two years ago without inviting her. "I never fit in that well with the pro-choice people," she says, in her northeast Dallas home."I shoot from...
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...
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...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...