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...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...
...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...
...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 the hip; I don't have a degree from Vassar. I have worked in three clinics trying to please everyone and trying...
OPERATION RESCUE Sweet-talks "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade into pro-life camp...
...last 20 years, abortion rights groups have had to defend the famous decision against constant attacks. In fact, McCorvey's recent conservative turn mirrors some of the Court's chipping away at its original decision, including restricting second trimester abortion rights which it had upheld through Roe v. Wade in more recent cases...