Norma Mccorvey Case

In 1970 a woman named Norma McCorvey who took a secret identify of "Jane Roe," filed a law suit challenging the Texas laws that criminalized abortion. Roe vs. Wade eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court. This case was described as a pregnant woman who at the time wished to terminate her pregnancy by an abortion 'performed by a competent, licensed physician, under safe, clinical conditions'; that she was unable to get a 'legal' abortion in Texas. McCorvey claimed that the Texas statutes were unconstitutionally vague and that they abridged her right of personal privacy.
Norma McCorvey states that her story is a lot more complicated than what is lead to the public eye. McCorvey says the she wasn’t full aware of all the facts in her case. McCorvey

claims that her attorneys simply used her and would have used just about anybody for their own personal gain. Unlike in the movie where she only had one child before getting pregnant with the child she wished to abort. McCorvey in her actual life had become pregnant with her third child and wanted to end it. She says that she was not aware of all the implications of an abortion or even what the term itself meant. She did not fully realize that this process would end a human life. She says that her attorney Sarah Weddington, told McCorvey that it was just a piece of tissue. When McCorvey agreed to claim that her pregnancy was the result of a gang-rape, it helped the case. Norma McCorvey has admitted, this was totally untrue.
McCorvey states that her actual involvement in the case was minimal. She signed the initial affidavit without even reading it, and was never invited into court. She claims that she never testified nor was ever present before any court on any level. Just as seen in the movie Norma McCorvey found out about the ruling from the newspaper just like the rest of the country. As well that was seen in the movie Norma McCorvey never had an abortion, she gave her baby up for adoption.
Norma McCorvey, for years played a blind eye to her involvement and about her role as "Jane Roe." Sometime in the 1980's, McCorvey became involved in the abortion movements.

After her participation in many abortion movements in the early 90’s she began to work at abortion clinics McCorvey had no personal one on one experience with abortion until she took her new occupation. Norma McCorvey was so involved and willing to take part in this because she was emotionally confused and conflicted on if her choices she made were actually morally right. McCorvey worked for a clinic in Dallas around 1995. During this time McCovery had serious dramatic encounters between pro-life activists and herself. Norma McCovery was extremely uncomfortable and displeased by their presence. Strangely enough though over time she formed relations with many of these people. After becoming friend and forming relations with them she started to seriously doubt the morality of what abortion was.
Norma McCorvey started to question the morality of abortion more when she formed an unlikely friendship with a 7 year-old who was a daughter of one of the pro-lifers. This young girls name was Emily Mackey. McCorvey started attending church and taking a look at what abortion really meant all upon Emily’s persistence and urging. McCorvey began to reject her past involvement with the pro-abortion

movement.
McCorvey made her decision and converted to dedicating her life and herself to pro-life work. McCorvey even went as far as starting her own ministry. Norma McCorvey did not give up her days in the court. Sometime in 2003 she went to court, this was in an attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade. The Fifth Circuit appeals court dismissed McCorvey’s case. McCorvey to this day is trying to right her wrongs in the Roe vs. Wade case. On two separate occasions one in 1998 and one in 2005 she testified before Congress about the injustices of abortion and the deceit underlying Roe v. Wade.