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Board Certified M.D. on Sunday, November 02, 2008 3:42:15 PM
To Catholics: Did you Know that Norma McCorvey, the Jane Roe of Roe v Wade never had the Abortion? She put the Baby up for Adoption. Did you know that after giving birth to 3 children and a Former lesbian she is now a Convert to Catholicism? Furthermore she petitioned SCOTUS to revoke their 1973 decision in 2005 but it was denied! I just learned of this this morning. If I didn't know this I would venture to wager that 99.99% of American Catholics including Priests and Bishops do not know this. McCorvey was the pon of a couple of female Lawyers trying to but their legal careers in neon lights. Sir Thomas Moore must be rolling in his grave and must be praying the storm window off of Heaven....
....Jane Roe is mortified by her Supreme Court Case...I learned of this while researching for a post on Wikipedia below in yellow and linked here. Additionally I found this amazing video to Voters that choked me up so simple so beatiful, so gentle so inspired.
My dear Catholic Brothers and Sisters Please tell others about this Roe v Wade disaster that makes Katrina seem like a sprinkle ~1,900 deaths vs 50 million...the Bishops are on Fire as never before. I know people vote their pocket books but this election is like none other. Norma McCorvey's conversion and the The video below me think of Cardinal Rigali's statement "God Thunders this is a Child!" 0bama is the "Manchurian Candidate" when it comes to the Culture of Death(see Freedom of Choice-death Act). American Catholics need to know this and vote appropriately as there is no excuse when you consider the Bishops' boldness in the run up to this election....Thanks again
At a signing of I Am Roe, in 1994, McCorvey was befriended by pro-life activist Flip Benham.[citation needed] Within a year, McCorvey converted to Christianity. She was baptized on August 8, 1995, by Benham in a Dallas backyard swimming pool, which event was filmed for national television. Two days later she announced that she had become an advocate of the pro-life movement (specifically, "Operation Rescue"), campaigning to make abortion illegal.
She wrote in her book, Won by Love,
- "I was sitting in O.R.'s offices when I noticed a fetal development poster. The progression was so obvious, the eyes were so sweet. It hurt my heart, just looking at them. I ran outside and finally, it dawned on me. "Norma," I said to myself, "They're right." I had worked with pregnant women for years. I had been through three pregnancies and deliveries myself. I should have known. Yet something in that poster made me lose my breath. I kept seeing the picture of that tiny, 10-week-old embryo, and I said to myself, that's a baby! It's as if blinders just fell off my eyes and I suddenly understood the truth--that's a baby!"
- I felt crushed under the truth of this realization. I had to face up to the awful reality. Abortion wasn't about "products of conception." It wasn't about "missed periods." It was about children being killed in their mother's wombs. All those years I was wrong. Signing that affidavit, I was wrong. Working in an abortion clinic, I was wrong. No more of this first trimester, second trimester, third trimester stuff. Abortion–at any point–was wrong. It was so clear. Painfully clear."[4]
In 1998, she released a statement that affirmed her entrance into the Roman Catholic Church, and she has been confirmed into the church as a full member.[5] She has also stated that she is no longer a lesbian.[6] On August 17, 1998 She was received into the Catholic Church by Fr. Frank Pavone, the International Director of Priests for Life and Fr. Edward Robinson in Dallas, TX.
In 2005, in McCorvey v. Hill, she petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn the 1973 decision, arguing that the case should be heard again in light of evidence[citation needed] that the procedure harms women, but that petition was denied.
Despite asking for an abortion in her original suit, McCorvey never had the procedure. She gave birth to a girl, who was placed for adoption. As is common in contested (and sometimes uncontested) cases, the court decision took longer than the nine-month pregnancy.
On January 22, 2008, McCorvey endorsed Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul. McCorvey stated, "I support Ron Paul for president because we share the same goal, that of overturning Roe v. Wade. He has never wavered on the issue of being pro-life and has a voting record to prove it. He understands the importance of civil liberties for all, including the unborn."[7]