Regardless of her feelings today, they are irrelevant to the merits of the 1973 case.
As the Supreme Court said in PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHEASTERN PA. v. CASEY (1992):
Just ot of curiosity, has her child ever spoken out on the abortion issue? Is it even known where the child is now? Now that would be a fascinating interview.
How interesting and ironic…women who regret having gotten pregnant have the choice to change their minds, but the woman who brought about that right can’t act on her regret…
The Norma McCorvey situation is doubly ironic…not only did the woman whose case guaranteed abortion rights not win that case until it was too late to abort, she eventually jumped the fence and joined the other camp.
Objectively, her turnaround on the abortion issue is no more significant than any other woman’s change of opinion on the subject. It only seems so to our subjective viewpoint because of her connection to the case.
Incidentally, she’s been pro-life for years. It’s only her bringing her case to repeal the ruling that’s news here.
Staunch pro-lifer. It’d sure be nice to see Roe overturned (and I really do think it WILL be, someday), but I don’t think this particular scenario is how it will come about.
We don’t have the Supreme Court for it …
Yet 
And may whatever god is actually in charge of things grant never…
Sure she can act on her regret. She can protest and speak and pray all she wants. But she can’t show up 30 years later and demand that the courts destroy firmly-established constitutional principles simply because she has changed her mind about where she stands.
Well, possibly. I’m a bit far removed from my constitutional law classes (six years and counting), but I seem to recall that a case or controversy doesn’t become moot if it arises from a situation that is capable of repetition while evading review. Pregnancy/ abortion would be the classic case. There’s at most a nine month time frame in which to work. If birth mooted the case, appellate review of laws relating to pregnancy would effectively be foreclosed, since no case gets up that quickly unless it involves a pending and undecided Presidential election.
May we get a cite on that, please?
While it’s not A-B…it’s close enough.
As someone who’s weekly pro-choice but strongly federalist, I would love to see RvW overturned. It was one of the worst examples of legislating from the bench, and abortion should be something that’s up to the state. That being said, Ms. Roe doesn’t have a chance in hell, and I think this is a stupid and frivalous way to try and get the ruling changed.
Jeff
That should read “weakly pro-choice”, not “weekly”. Somewhat different meaning. Heh.
Jeff
Thanks, but that’s certainly a far cry from “campaigning to lessen drunk driving penalties.”
It’ll be so nice when women can bleed to death by vaccum cleaner, back room abortions like they did in the lovely years before Roe vs. Wade… Oh for the good ole days.
Not that it will come to this. In our world, its much more ethical to force women to endure the pregnancy so they can leave the baby in a trash filled dumpster like Yahweh intended.
Wait… I forgot… he doesn’t care about the sinners who got pregnant in the first place anyway.
I’m really getting tired of this. How many times must this old chestnut be trotted out?
Pro-Lifer, eh? I hope you have a consistent opinion on the death penalty, as well. I am so tired of THAT contradiction.
It doesn’t matter what this woman says she wants today. That does not change the law of the land.
Wow, let’s just keep those chestnuts rolling.
lesse here now…
Yer a bunch of misogynists…yeah that’s it! (with small penises to boot!!) There are no anti choice women. If there are…they’re under some mind control thing from their repressive husband.
You only care about life INSIDE the womb…once it’s born you could care less. And of COURSE you only care about the birth mother so far as she is an incubation chamber. You could give a shit about her otherwise.
How am I doing so far? 
I’m pro-life and anti the death penalty…except when used judiciously against people who exhume tired Chestnut ‘arguments’.
I’m happy with my level of consistency.