Can good law ever be built on a foundation of lies and deceit?
Proponents of abortion apparently think so.
Thirty years later, they continue to defend Roe v. Wade as perhaps the most important Supreme Court ruling in the history of America. Roe v. Wade has resulted in the slaying of 40 million unborn babies since Roe. Yet, the abortion-at-all-costs crowd speaks of Roe in reverential tones – almost religious tones. They speak of it as a profound human-rights breakthrough. They speak of it as if it is one of the Ten Commandments. No new member of the Supreme Court must be seated if he or she does not subscribe to every tenet of Roe, they say.
But now Roe is being challenged in a new way, by a most unlikely force – by “Roe” herself.
Norma McCorvey was “Jane Roe” in 1973. She was the subject of the case that went to the Supreme Court. And now she is filing suit to overturn the decision.
She is being represented by the Justice Foundation, which contends changes in the law and new research show Roe v. Wade is unjust.
Norma McCorvey is in an unusual position to get this case heard because, as a party to the litigation, she has the right to petition for its reopening.
McCorvey was 21 when she became pregnant out of wedlock. She made up a story about being raped. She worked with two lawyers who wanted to challenge Texas abortion laws.
“Plain and simple, I was used,” she says. “I was a nobody to them. They only needed a pregnant woman to use for their case, and that is it. They cared, not about me, but only about legalizing abortion. Even after the case, I was never respected – probably because I was not an Ivy League-educated, liberal feminist like they were.”
Thirty years later, they continue to defend Roe v. Wade as perhaps the most important Supreme Court ruling in the history of America. Roe v. Wade has resulted in the slaying of 40 million unborn babies since Roe. Yet, the abortion-at-all-costs crowd speaks of Roe in reverential tones – almost religious tones. They speak of it as a profound human-rights breakthrough. They speak of it as if it is one of the Ten Commandments. No new member of the Supreme Court must be seated if he or she does not subscribe to every tenet of Roe, they say.
But now Roe is being challenged in a new way, by a most unlikely force – by “Roe” herself.
Norma McCorvey was “Jane Roe” in 1973. She was the subject of the case that went to the Supreme Court. And now she is filing suit to overturn the decision.
She is being represented by the Justice Foundation, which contends changes in the law and new research show Roe v. Wade is unjust.
Norma McCorvey is in an unusual position to get this case heard because, as a party to the litigation, she has the right to petition for its reopening.
McCorvey was 21 when she became pregnant out of wedlock. She made up a story about being raped. She worked with two lawyers who wanted to challenge Texas abortion laws.
“Plain and simple, I was used,” she says. “I was a nobody to them. They only needed a pregnant woman to use for their case, and that is it. They cared, not about me, but only about legalizing abortion. Even after the case, I was never respected – probably because I was not an Ivy League-educated, liberal feminist like they were.”
