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I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.

Norma McCorvey

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Norma McCorvey
Age: 69 †
Born: 1947
Born: September 22
Died: 2017
Died: February 18
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Louisiana
Jane Roe
Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey
Wade
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It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.
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I deeply regret the damage my original case caused women. I want the Supreme Court to examine the evidence and have a spirit of justice for women and children.
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It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.
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It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.
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But Sarah Weddingtonhad never told me that what I was signing would allow women to use abortions as a form of birth control. We talked about truly desperate and needy women, not women already wearing maternity clothes.
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I think it's the pro-abortion people who are doing this to collect on their insurance, so they can go out and build bigger and better killing centers.
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I remained basically anonymous for almost 17 years. I, in those 17 years, I tried to commit suicide a couple of times. I was very ashamed of what I had done, and I was looking for forgiveness not only from God but from myself.
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There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.
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My case was wrongfully decided and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation.
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The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.
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I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.
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Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women.
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The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.
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I told the attorneys that I had been raped in hopes that it would speed things up in the court system. However, the wheels of justice turn remotely very slow and a women can just stay pregnant for so long.
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I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.
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I’m Norma McCorvey, the former Jane Roe of the Roe vs. Wade decision that brought legal child killing to America. I was persuaded by feminist attorneys to lie to say that I was raped, and needed an abortion. It was all a lie.
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Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.
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