McCorvey, who was at center of Roe v. Wade, dead at 69

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DALLAS –  Norma McCorvey, whose legal challenge under the pseudonym "Jane Roe" led to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision that legalized abortion but who later became an outspoken opponent of the procedure, died Saturday. She was 69.

McCorvey died at an assisted living center in Katy, Texas, said journalist Joshua Prager, who is working on a book about McCorvey and was with her and her family when she died. He said she died of heart failure.

McCorvey was 22, unmarried, unemployed and pregnant for the third time when in 1969 she sought to have an abortion in Texas, where the procedure was illegal except to save a woman's life. The subsequent lawsuit, known as Roe v. Wade, led to Supreme Court's 1973 ruling that established abortion rights, though by that time, McCorvey had given birth and given her daughter up for adoption.

Decades later, McCorvey underwent a conversion, becoming an evangelical Christian and joining the anti-abortion movement. A short time later, she underwent another religious conversion and became a Roman Catholic.

"I'm 100 percent pro-life. I don't believe in abortion even in an extreme situation. If the woman is impregnated by a rapist, it's still a child. You're not to act as your own God," she told The Associated Press in 1998.

After the court's ruling, McCorvey had lived quietly for several years before revealing herself as Jane Roe in the 1980s. She also confessed to lying when she said the pregnancy was the result of rape.

Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, she remained an ardent supporter of abortion rights and worked for a time at a Dallas women's clinic where abortions were performed.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/18/mccorvey-who-was-at-center-roe-v-wade-dead-at-69.html

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

I disagree with her Tottaly 

[Dashinka 25,856]

7 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

I disagree with her Tottaly 

Actually, she disagreed with herself as she got older.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

4 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Actually, she disagreed with herself as she got older.

True.  She dedicated her life to getting it overturned.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

5 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Actually, she disagreed with herself as she got older.

and that's the her I disagreed with . I am very reluctantly pro choice. Certainly those that say not even for the life of the mother or child are way off base, and very much the Taliban of American society

 

Of course you would expect this opinion with a middle of the road guy 

[Transborderwife 4,666]

10 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

and that's the her I disagreed with . I am very reluctantly pro choice. Certainly those that say not even for the life of the mother or child are way off base, and very much the Taliban of American society

 

Of course you would expect this opinion with a middle of the road guy 

Once when I was pregnant I needed a home and was in a maternity home.  I am of the same mindset as you wrong abortion, however I also tend to take the not my body not my issue stance.  

 

Anyways, they were constantly doing hard core pro choice things and it just made me uncomfortable as it seems uneducated 

[spookyturtle 9,466]

1 hour ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

and that's the her I disagreed with . I am very reluctantly pro choice. Certainly those that say not even for the life of the mother or child are way off base, and very much the Taliban of American society

 

Of course you would expect this opinion with a middle of the road guy 

Trump is anti abortion. Soon you'll be kicked off the swing.