Did you know that Jane Roe of Roe v. Ray was raised a Jehovah's Witness?

by AndersonsInfo 12 Replies latest jw friends

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  AndersonsInfo

  https://observer.case.edu/editorial-reproductive-rights-are-human-rights/?fbclid=IwAR1Gip_Xy4DkZ-kePSa8qts72A5_UpgEaBcRDuRiiT7DSi-IySQnmWXtZTk
  

  Editorial: Reproductive rights are human rights

  

  Lorie Shaull

  Jane Roe and her lawyer outside of the Supreme Court.

  Editorial Board

  January 23, 2020

  Norma McCorvey was born to two Jehovah’s Witnesses in a suburb west of Houston in 1947. She quickly learned that she did not subscribe to the same beliefs as her parents and, as a result, ended up in a correctional facility. After repeatedly seeing her mother drunk with other men, McCorvey promised herself she would pursue a different life. However, by age 22 she had been pregnant three times—the first cared for by McCorvey’s mother and the second by the child’s father. McCorvey, unprepared for the first two pregnancies, was in no way prepared to have a third child, but lacked the means for an abortion or any other alternative.
  

  Few people recognize McCorvey’s name, but nearly all Americans are familiar with her pseudonym, Jane Roe, of Roe v. Wade.

  Read more: https://observer.case.edu/editorial-reproductive-rights-are-human-rights/?fbclid=IwAR1Gip_Xy4DkZ-kePSa8qts72A5_UpgEaBcRDuRiiT7DSi-IySQnmWXtZTk
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  LongHairGal

  ANDERSONSINFO:

  Very interesting. I never knew this person was raised a JW.
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  under the radar

  Thanks for posting this, Barbara. I didn't know she was raised a JW, nor whether she ever considered herself one. I do know she later reversed her position on abortion.
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  TTWSYF

  UTR- Yes, she was quite vocal and adamant in her reversal position of being the Roe. I remember reading that she thought of it as her worst lifelong mistake. How many millions of children were aborted at US tax payer expense? How many regrets from mothers and fathers whom later were parents...or were not parents?
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  LV101

  YES - I recall this woman altering her position.
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  waton

  whatever, she never subscribed to the wt moral code. not all code breakers are appealing characters.
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  was a new boy

  The new FX documentary “AKA Jane Roe,” out May 22, contains a shocking revelation: Roe (of “Roe v. Wade” fame) played the part of an anti-abortion crusader in exchange for money.

  the former Jane Roe admits that her later turn to the anti-abortion camp as a born-again Christian was “all an act.”

  https://www.thedailybeast.com/jane-roe-confesses-anti-abortion-conversion-all-an-act-paid-for-by-the-christian-right?ref=home

  https://youtu.be/09ZSKE38lTU?t=22
  
  
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  Simon

  The new FX documentary “AKA Jane Roe,” out May 22, contains a shocking revelation: Roe (of “Roe v. Wade” fame) played the part of an anti-abortion crusader in exchange for money.

  Seems convenient to a certain organization that likes receiving it's half-a-billion dollar political slush-funding to push that narrative rather than the "Roe vs Wade was based on a fraudulent rape claim". Especially as she's dead and can't be questioned about it.

  Also, activists like Greta never receive any compensation, right? If they do, they can be ignored, yes?
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  Simon

  "Reproductive rights are human rights"

  Life is the most basic human right.

  Whatever happened to the idea that abortion was supposed to be "safe, legal and rare". Ah, I remember - democrats!
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  Vidiot

  "...She quickly learned that she did not subscribe to the same beliefs as her parents and, as a result, ended up in a correctional facility..."

  What, they had her committed, or something?