Norma McCorvey and the Complicated Legacy of Jane Roe
Norma McCorvey, who was 'Jane Roe,' from Roe v. Wade, made a stunning deathbed confession. This week, a new documentary drops a boulder into the already complicated legacy of the woman better known as “Jane Roe” — the plaintiff in the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion in America.
A Public Conversion to the Pro-Life Cause
In the mid-1990s, McCorvey had made a public religious and political conversion. She was baptized on television in a backyard swimming pool; she wore overalls and came out beaming. She declared herself newly pro-life and spent the last two decades of her life crusading against the ruling her own case had made possible.
The Deathbed Revelation and Its Impact
Now what? ‘Jane Roe,’ from Roe v. Wade, made a stunning deathbed confession. This pivotal moment featuring Norma McCorvey in the FX documentary “AKA Jane Roe” raises a difficult question: Does that change anything about the abortion debate?