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"Mary Doe" joins "Jane Roe" in pro-life ranks.(Insider Report)
Sandra Cano, the woman identified as "Mary Doe" in a companion case to the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court abortion decision, "says she wants the ruling that allowed abortion on demand to be overturned," reported the LifeNews.com wire service on August 25th. "I'm going back to court to right a wrong," stated Cano at a press conference called by the Justice Foundation, a Texas-based legal group representing both "Doe" and Norma McCorvey (aka "Jane Roe"). "Abortion has hurt millions of women, and I regret my role."
The Doe decision is crucial in that it defined health--as pertaining to the decision to abort a child--to include "all factors ... physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age...." Since Roe v. Wade held that maternal health considerations can justify an abortion at any stage of pregnancy, the definition handed down in Doe effectively permits abortion on demand at any point before birth. This includes the gruesome, and medically unwarranted, method of infanticide called partial-birth ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) CAROL ANN CAMPBELL, Staff Writer August 12, 1995 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times September 13, 1997 700+ words
...however, from the plaintiff in that case, Jane Roe. At the National Memorial for the Unborn...with the words of Norma McCorvey, a k a Jane Roe. Here are her words, cast forever in...am Norma McCorvey. I became known as Jane Roe on January 22, 1973, when the U.S...
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- Magazine article from: The Village Voice Nathan, Debbie April 30, 1996 700+ words
...The name, of course, isn't real. Jane Roe is Norma McCorvey, and if you followed...the days when she was the pro-choice Jane Roe. McCorvey and I first spoke when the...between the poised, politically conscious Jane Roe I had expected and the rough-spoken...
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...prominent in America. Norma McCorvey is Jane Roe of Roe vs Wade, the lawsuit that legalised...has had a change of heart. On 10 August Jane Roe repudiated the pro-choice movement and...rather have had someone like them as their Jane Roe." The irony is they could have had Sarah...
