Something not generally known about Norma McCorvey(aka Jane Roe) is that she was forced to carry her baby to term. She then gave it up for adoption. Where is s/he now? Are adoption records in Texas sealed? If so has the information ever leaked out? Has Ms. McCorvey ever tried to contact him/her?
According to this article from October 2004, “McCorvey had three daughters, two of which were adopted out and she has never seen. The other, Melissa, has given McCorvey two grandchildren.” Since the Roe v. Wade daughter was adopted out, I infer that McCorvey has never seen her.
BTW, when lawyers Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee met with cleaning woman Norma McCorvey in February 1970, she was two and a half months pregnant, and at the time claimed to be the pregnant from being raped (she later admitted she made up the rape part). Abortions on demand became legal in California in 1967. Weddington and Coffee were looking for a plaintiff to overturn Texas’ abortion law, and as such, their case depended on her staying pregnant.
Something which McCorvey now claims was inadequately explained to her until it was absolutely too late to do anything else, regardless of where she might’ve travelled or what happened with the lawsuit filed on her behalf. When she enumerates her reasons for her current pro-life stance, this (which she describes as a hypocritical deception) is one of her major points of contention.
Good thing that baby was put up for adoption.
I can’t imagine how knowing that your mother sued because she was mad that she wasn’t allowed to kill you would feel. Hopefully that woman has no idea that she’s the Roe baby.
Actually, all three of McCorvey’s children were adopted out. Melissa is the Roe baby, and she knows it.
The two were reunited in about 2000 or 2001. I remember reading about it in People. By that time, Norma was already living as a Catholic, but she was still with her long-time girlfriend.
In reality, many people today were born after their parents considered abortion. The parents may have changed their minds, or not been able to afford it, or were held up by regulations. Some of these people, I suspect, have had honest conversations with their parents and know there was a time when their parents considered aborting them (your use of the term “killing” injects a very political and subjective tone here). Whether or not this is devastating to them is not for us to say. I certainly know many people who know they were unplanned or “accidents” and they do not seem to be emotionally scarred for knowing they weren’t originally wanted.
I am not sure it is fair to characterize Norma as especially bloodthirsty just because she sued. As others in this thread have explained, she was selected as a promising case. As I understand it, that’s exactly how Brown was chosen in 1954. Sometimes when a case makes it through the court system, it wasn’t that the plaintiff was especially rabid, but that the facts of the case were what advocates were looking for.
Hmm. I’m not sure how she’s supposed to feel, but consider this.
My mother would have gladly aborted me had she had a chance. I hold no hatred or unpleasantness toward her. She had a horrible life because her high school teacher seduced her and no one had taught her the consequences. She wasn’t able to marry until she was well into her 40’s because no one would have an illigitamate mother in their family.
It screwed up her entire young life, and I was adopted away from her at ge four. I hold no blame toward her, why should Melissa? People are in different situations at different times, and life looks very different at 16 then it does at 40.
Radio commentator Stan once had an entire monologue about how his mother told him (at dinner at a family party :eek: ) that she had wanted to abort him. He was not so tramuatized that he couldn’t be funny/sad about it.
I can’t find via monolouge via google, but it’s doubtless out there somewhere.