Anti-abortion activists reject deathbed claim that Roe plaintiff Norma McCorvey faked her conversion

Published May 21, 2020 11:00am ET



Anti-abortion activists are rejecting the shock claim by the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade that her conversion to the anti-abortion movement was a fraud.

The claim, made by Norma McCorvey in a “deathbed confession” during the forthcoming FX documentary AKA Jane Roe, discounts her journey from pro-abortion rights activist to born-again Christian and eventually to Catholic anti-abortion advocate as a decadeslong pose. In truth, McCorvey said she was motivated by money. She was not anti-abortion at all, but an opportunist, she told director Nick Sweeney.

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