A Christian since her conversion in 1995, Roe's real name is Norma McCorvey, and her life is dedicated to her ministry called "Roe No More."
In an exclusive interview with WorldNetDaily last week, McCorvey shared her life story and explained how she was "used" by pro-abortion attorneys in their quest to legalize the procedure.
At the age of 21, McCorvey was pregnant with her third child. She had given her other two children up for adoption and McCorvey did not want to say goodbye to her offspring a third time. She decided to have an illegal abortion, but the Dallas clinic she went to had been recently raided and shut down. So McCorvey made up a story — she had been raped, she told her doctor and two lawyers. She signed an affidavit on condition of anonymity, and the lawsuit began...
McCorvey, the name Norma took as a result of her short-lived, teen-age marriage, grew up poor and felt unloved by her mother. She has a ninth-grade education, was a drug and alcohol abuser, and has taken jobs as a carnival worker and house cleaner. As the Roe v. Wade trial progressed up the judicial ladder, the plaintiff never saw the inside of a courtroom as "Roe." She says she was told she didn't need to be there. It was only after the Supreme Court made its decision in 1973 that she began to follow the ramifications of the case. By that time, McCorvey's third child was 2 years old.
McCorvey never had, nor has she ever had, an abortion...."
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