Norma McCorvey, the "Roe" in Roe v Wade, NOT arrested at Notre Dame

According to AIPNEWS.com correspondents who are on the ground at Notre Dame, as expected, Norma McCorvey, the "Roe" in Roe v Wade, was just arrested on campus as she and others prayed and protested the honors which are being bestowed by the Catholic institution's leaders on pro-abortion politician Barack Obama tomorrow.

Apparently there were more than twenty pro-life witnesses who were taken into custody along with Norma McCorvey.

If you have additional information on the historic events which are taking place in South Bend, and want to get word out, please email tomhoefling@gmail.com and we'll do what we can to help!

This is from a year 2000 story from pregantpause.org:

Norma McCorvey became pregnant by her boyfriend in 1969. She said she had been raped, thinking that this would make it possible for her to get a legal abortion. But Texas law then permitted abortion only to save the life of the mother. She and various pro-abortion organizations used her case to challenge the Texas abortion law in court, finally reaching the Supreme Court in 1973. The court documents all referred to her as “Jane Roe” to protect her privacy (though many years later she came forward). Henry Wade was the district attorney for Dallas County, Texas, who defended the law. Thus the case is known as “Roe versus Wade”. In its decision, the Supreme Court declared that all state laws restricting or limiting abortion were “unconstitutional”, and so legalized abortion on demand throughout the United States.
Ancient history? Not exactly. On July 22, 1995, Jane Roe / Norma McCorvey became a born-again Christian and a pro-lifer.

In early 1995 Miss McCorvey was working as marketing director at a Dallas abortion center, “A Choice for Women”. On February 1, Operation Rescue, a pro-life group that engages in peaceful (though sometimes illegal) protests, opened an office in the same building. At first McCorvey, along with other workers at the abortion center, would not speak to the Rescue people (except for obscenities).

This was a no-smoking building, so when Miss McCorvey wanted to smoke, she had to go outside. Flip Benham, a minister and the president of Operation Rescue, would hang around and chat with the smokers. Flip and Norma discovered they had much in common: they were the same age, they had both been part of the hippie culture in their youth, etc. They gradually became friends, and pretty soon Norma was spending a lot of time chatting with the Rescue people. Rhonda, one of the workers at the office, sometimes brought her children with her, and Norma soon made a regular habit of coming by to hug the kids.

One day she stopped by the Rescue office and asked Rhonda’s 7-year-old child if she’d like to go with her to make some copies. While Rhonda was nervous about the idea of her 7-year-old going off with this women, she did not object. While they were out, the little girl asked Norma if she’d go to church with them that Sunday. Amazingly, she agreed.

She continued to attend the independent Bible church. On July 22, she became a born-again Christian.

The Rescue people tried to keep it quiet as long as possible to shield her from the media. But when she was baptized on August 8 it became clear that word was about to get out, so on August 10 they released the story.

In early press conferences the media leaped on her, looking for flaws in her story. She said she was pro-life. The reporters pressed her, asking about this or that special or extreme case, and she backed down and made some pro-abortion statements. This, of course, made the media gleeful, sometimes using these quotes to report that she is “still pro-choice”, sometimes combining quotes to show that she is contradicting herself.

The reality, of course, is that at the time of these interviews she had only been a pro-lifer and a Christian for three weeks. She has not necessarily worked out all the details of her new position. (If you’ve never stood in front of a hostile crowd throwing questions at you with no time to think about your answers, believe me, it’s not easy to be completely logical and consistent.)

It is interesting to compare the image of pro-lifers that one normally gets from the media, with the image one gets from this incident. Many people become pro-life because they have carefully examined the scientific and ethical issues involved and come to the conclusion that the pro-life position is the only rational one. But that isn’t how Norma McCorvey got here. Norma McCorvey became pro-life and a Christian because her pro-life “enemies” showed her more friendship, love, and genuine concern than her pro-abortion “friends”.

Pray for Norma McCorvey. She has a tough time ahead.

That’s Norma story. She has come a very long way.

The truth is Roe v. Wade was based on a fraud, but was used by the libs to gain their cherished abortion on demand. The companion case, Doe v. Bolton, was also based on fraud.

The Supreme Court has never corrected its error.

Just like Zero has no constitutional authority to do what he is doing to the car business, evil succeeds when good men do nothing.

Let’s not do nothing.

From Notre Dame website- Faith and Service

“We have a much more challenging mission than most universities. Most universities strive simply to be excellent educational institutions by the accepted standards of the profession. We do this at Notre Dame, and we have had great success. But we also foster and celebrate a distinctive mission to be a Catholic university, inspired and guided by a great spiritual tradition.”
Reverend John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., President

From its earliest days, Notre Dame’s distinctive mission has set it apart from other institutions of higher education. The difference lies not so much in terms of subject matter and academic disciplines as in the perception of how those disciplines ought to serve God and humanity. At the very heart of Notre Dame’s mission is its profound faith heritage and aspiration to be at the center of Catholic intellectual life—to be a bellwether institution in the pursuit of truth and knowledge, while remaining guided and elevated by the moral imperatives of the Catholic faith.

This dedication is seen in almost every aspect of the Notre Dame experience—from the residential nature of its campus, to the organizations and programs that support and enrich its faith tradition, through academic and community service programs, and through its founding order, the Congregation of Holy Cross, which still plays a vital role in the life of the University today.

We invite you to explore the many ways in which Notre Dame fulfills its Catholic mission through faith and service.

Pro-Lifers Nationwide Invited to Watch Peaceful Arrests at Notre Dame Live, via an Online Webcast

SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is being issued by Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue.

Following are sections of a letter sent by Randall Terry to tens of thousands of pro-lifers via email around the country.

Randall Terry stated in his letter:

“As crazy as it sounds, you can watch the prayerful procession, and possible arrest of Dr. Alan Keyes, Norma McCorvey and others at Notre Dame on Friday and Saturday at 12:00 Noon. The awesome live action film crew, Doug Sauer, ProduceNetTv.com, has decided to come and do a live WEBCAST of this resistance to evil at Notre Dame.

“So, you can click here to watch this historic moment live online. If this link is not working, go to http://www.teapartylive.tv/ for your back-up site.

“And in case you missed it; Norma McCorvey - the ‘Jane Roe’ of Roe vs. Wade - is arriving tomorrow in South Bend to stand against Notre Dame’s treachery along with Alan Keyes and scores of others. If Notre Dame is foolish enough to arrest her, it will be the first time she was arrested in a pro-life event.

“I hope you will watch this historic moment; I beg for your prayers. Our friends begin broadcasting at 10:00 AM, and will go until early afternoon.

“The arrests - if Notre Dame is hardened in their path - will happen around noon. This is the glory of the Internet; even if some of the secular media does not cover a story, we can ignore their blackout, and see the truth.” Randall Terry, Founder, Operation Rescue.

Go to www.StopObamaNotreDame.com to learn more, and to sign up for media updates from Randall Terry

Contact: Kathy Veritas; 904-687-9804

SOURCE Randall Terry, Founder, Operation Rescue

My friend, you are correct.

The only stats we have on abortion is not even from our own government, but from the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which is the research arm of Planned Parenthood. Some big states, like California do not even provide an annual estimate of abortions. So, these numbers have a built in bias to be low from the get-go.

Since 1973, conservatively speaking, at least 50 million babies have been aborted. Half of them are theoretically girls. If girls aborted from 1973-1992 were allowed to live, they would have had about 10 million children by now.

Can you see the multi-generational effects of the killing of one child in utero?

After 60 million dead babies, when does God say it is time to judge America?

We sing, God shed His grace on thee, while we shed the blood of innocents.

So, yes, your realization is absolutely correct. And how poorer our world would be without even ONE of you and yours.

That is why we must stand against the pro-death forces. All have the right to life, and from life comes liberty and happiness.

Without life, there is nothing.

As for Norma, if she is arrested this would be her first time.

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