Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” from the Roe v Wade Supreme Court Decision, was arrested today on the Notre Dame Campus while protesting the visit by Barack Obama. But several online reports contradicts the first reports saying that Norma McCorvey has resisted arrest.South Bend Fox28 reports McCorvery was not among the 4 arrested Sunday, currently being held on $250 bonds. An additional 21 were arrested during a protest yesterday.
Reports FOX:
Protesting today but not arrested was Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff identified as “Roe” in the Roe v. Wade
McCorvey had told press in advance of her protest:
“Hopefully we can convince Mr. Obama that he should be standing on the right side, and that’s the side for life. I’m pro-life now, I’m not afraid.”
Norma Leah McCorvey is best known by her pseudonym name Jane Roe. She was part of the landmark lawsuit Roe v. Wade in 1973. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that laws against abortion are unconstitutional. The court overturned individual state laws against abortion. That was then. Years later she changed her mind and became an advocate for the pro-life movement.
McCorvey claims she was a pawn of two ambitious lawyers, Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, who were looking for a plaintiff with whom they could challenge the Texas law prohibiting abortion. The case, which claimed McCorvey had been impregnated as a result of a rape, took three year to reach the high court. McCorvey gave birth to a baby girl while awaiting the ruling and signed her over for adoption. She later recanted the rape story that was the basis of Roe v. Wade.
Norma has written several books, including I Am Roe in 1994. In 1995 she had a religious conversion and was received into the Roman Catholic Church. It was at that point that she changed her mind about abortion.
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