Norma McCorvey, Roe v. Wade Plaintiff, Dies at 69

Interestingly, in her personal life, McCorvey actually shifted her position on abortion rights in later years and became a pro-life advocate in the years following the decision.

Approximately 60 million unborn babies have been aborted in America since 1973. It defined her life, but did not explain the ambiguities that were back in the news Saturday with her death at 69.

However, the politics of the movement made her turn on the work she had done.

But by August of that year, she had changed faiths to Catholicism and had left Operation Rescue.

“Norma’s story will live on”, said Fr.

Prager’s profile on her for Vanity Fair paints a picture of an “accidental activist” who struggled through three pregnancies and trouble at home before she took on the job of being one of the country’s most infamous plaintiffs. I never appeared in any court.

REBECCA HERSHER, BYLINE: In 1970 Norma McCorvey was living on the street struggling with addiction when she found out she was pregnant.

McCorvey was born in Louisiana, spending part of her childhood in the small village of Lettsworth. “I’m certainly sorry she gave the opposition a tool to use against the case”. It provided a harsh realization that the attention she said she sought – as a leader, a role model and even a place in the history books – would come at a fearsome and frightening price. She signed an affidavit on condition of anonymity, and the lawsuit began.

Her doctor referred her to an adoption lawyer, his childhood friend Linda Coffee, who was looking for a plaintiff to challenge the abortion statute in Texas.

“Upon knowing God, I realized that my case, which legalized abortion under man, was the biggest mistake of my life”, she said. They cared, not about me, but only about legalizing abortion. I never testified in front of any jury or judge.

Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life, the man McCorvey credited with bringing her to the Catholic church, issued the following statement.

During Trump’s first week in office, he signed an executive order banning federal money from going to global groups that perform or provide information on abortions, the BBC reported. “When I told her then how desperately I needed one, she could have told me where to go for it”.