User:SkeeballChamp/Norma McCorvey


 * Adding that her name is Pixie

Post Roe v. Wade[edit]
While living a quiet life with her partner and working as a cleaning lady, the court ruled in favor of Roe. McCorvey had stayed out of the spotlight up until the 1980s. She began working at a health clinic in Dallas. There she advised patients about the procedure and would help in counseling them. She began attending Pro-Choice rallies and exposed herself as Jane Roe. In 1983, McCorvey told the press that she had been raped; in 1987, she said the rape claim was untrue. (moved) She says that she made that claim in an attempt to gain abortion services. Even though the rape wasn't a part of the court case, Anti-Choice groups used McCovery's lie as a reason to further their argument to overturn Roe. McCorvey was invited to speak to an audience of 300,000 people at a Pro-Choice Rally in Washington. She spoke alongside big names like Whoopi Goldberg, Jane Fonda, Glenn Close, and many more. “I looked out at all those people, men and women, and so many people brought their children, and they were all there because of me and I started to cry,” said Norma McCorvey. In 1994, McCorvey published her autobiography, I Am Roe.

Anti-abortion activism[edit]
At a book signing, McCorvey was befriended by Flip Benham, an evangelical minister and the national director of the anti-abortion organization Operation Rescue.

The offices of the Christian Anti-Abortion group, Operation Rescue, opened its doors right next to McCorvey's Clinic, A Choice for Women. McCorvey was known to share some less than kind words with the employees of Operation Rescue. Eventually, Flip Benham, an evangelical minister and the national director of the anti-abortion organization Operation Rescue, and McCorvey sat down and discussed their differences. This results in Benham helping McCorvey find God and aids her in becoming a Born-Again Christian.