Posted on 07/10/2009 10:11:19 AM PDT by Steelfish
'These steps are covered with blood'
Her 1973 supreme court case, Roe v Wade, gave every US woman the right to have an abortion.
Yet now, Norma McCorvey is prepared to go to prison to help reverse that law. The figurehead of America's anti-abortion movement tells Ed Pilkington what caused this extraordinary change of heart
7 July 2009
The woman standing on the steps of the supreme court in Washington DC is nervous. A harsh sun is beating down on the white marble, threatening to bleach her out of the picture.
She looks very small beneath the classical columns of America's legal shrine, with its legend: "Equal justice under the law."
"I'm scared," she says, glancing at two police officers standing nearby. "You never know if they'll recognise me. Maybe they'd arrest me."
A few minutes later, as we prepare to leave the supreme court complex, the same woman bends over and spits ostentatiously on to its bottom step. "There, I've done it!" she says. "I made sure those guards saw me."
But just a moment ago you were scared they might arrest you, I say.
"I don't care. I'm feeling militant standing in front of this mortuary."
Such is the volatile, confusing and contradictory world of Norma McCorvey. She is, or was, the Jane Roe of the US supreme court's most famous and contentious ruling, Roe v Wade. In 1973, as the anonymous pregnant plaintiff, her plight was presented to the court so that American women could win the constitutional right to an abortion.
For the past 36 years, Roe versus Wade has been a fault line across America, pitting its coasts against its heartland, state against state, woman against woman. And with the killing of the abortion doctor, George Tiller, in Kansas in May, the issue has...
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I'm glad Ms. McCorvey has made peace with God.
I believe her repentance is sincere...and she is forgiven.
She was a pawn in a power play by the abortion minded.
54 million babies.
And yes, they are babies. Fetuses are just babies inside the womb. They’re not a blob of mystery tissue like the left would have us believe.
Thank you for posting that.
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