Thursday, July 25, 2013
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Roe and McCorvey-the Story Behind Roe
Jane Roe- the name behind the famous Roe v Wade debate that broke open the doors for abortion in America. Roe was the victim, the unwilling pragnancy that the lawyers pleaded in the United States Supreme Court. The picture painted of Jane Roe is not a realistic one. This girl that apparently was unwillingly pregnant after a violent gang-rape does not exist today. Instead there stands a women, won by love and changed by grace......This is the story of Jane Roe.
One day in 1969 a young, twenty-two year old women was looking for a way to end her pregnancy. Norma McCorvey was pregnant with her third child when she met two driven lawyers, Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee. Together they were looking to lift the ban on abortion in the state of Texas. They needed a extreme and moving story for their case. They needed a signature, and Norma was the one they wanted. Norma was naiive and desperate, she saw abortion only as a way to cease being pregnant. They, as Norma puts it, "were looking for somebody, anybody, to use to further their agenda. I was their most willing doop." So Norma signed on the dotted line, and from then on Norma L McCorvery became Jane Roe.
Weddington and Coffee took Norma's story all the way to the Supreme Court, but the story told there was not the one Norma gave them. Norma confesses, "the affidavit did not happen the way I said it did, pure and simple. I lied.....So the entire abortion industry is based on a litle lie that grew more horrible with each telling." While Weddington and Coffee had faught and lied in order to give Roe the right to abortion, Norma couldn't abort. She gave the child up for adoption. Years after the court decitions Norma struggled with guilt. She worked at numberous clinics as she carried her burden, feeling responsible for all the mess. At one clinic she was at a pro-life group moving in next door. Initially Norma had despised their work, but as she talked with the people and became aware of their heart for life she unwillingly softened. Mostly due to the friendship of one girl, Emily Mackey. Drawn to Emily in a deep way, Norma's perspective on abortion was changing.
"Abortion was no longer a 'abstract right.' It had a face now, in a little girl named Emily." Norma, through Emily was starting to see.
Due to Emily's prodding Norma visited a night sermon at a local church. There she found a relief from every shame and guilt she had carried through the grace of God. That night Norma's identity changed from Jane Roe to a child of God. "Finally it dawned on me." Norma describes, " 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 it. Yet something 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 the blinders just fell off my eyes and I suddenly understood the truth- that's a baby!"
To this day Norma McCorvey works to spread that message. By her ministry Roe No More and her book Won By Love Norma lives to end what was started. Her story reminds us of the lies and heart ache that comes from abortion. But that God can turn anything around, and open every eye to see the baby in that embryo. The life within the womb.
All quotes taken from various Internet articles and a ATS ministries bullitin. www.roenomore.org
One day in 1969 a young, twenty-two year old women was looking for a way to end her pregnancy. Norma McCorvey was pregnant with her third child when she met two driven lawyers, Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee. Together they were looking to lift the ban on abortion in the state of Texas. They needed a extreme and moving story for their case. They needed a signature, and Norma was the one they wanted. Norma was naiive and desperate, she saw abortion only as a way to cease being pregnant. They, as Norma puts it, "were looking for somebody, anybody, to use to further their agenda. I was their most willing doop." So Norma signed on the dotted line, and from then on Norma L McCorvery became Jane Roe.
Weddington and Coffee took Norma's story all the way to the Supreme Court, but the story told there was not the one Norma gave them. Norma confesses, "the affidavit did not happen the way I said it did, pure and simple. I lied.....So the entire abortion industry is based on a litle lie that grew more horrible with each telling." While Weddington and Coffee had faught and lied in order to give Roe the right to abortion, Norma couldn't abort. She gave the child up for adoption. Years after the court decitions Norma struggled with guilt. She worked at numberous clinics as she carried her burden, feeling responsible for all the mess. At one clinic she was at a pro-life group moving in next door. Initially Norma had despised their work, but as she talked with the people and became aware of their heart for life she unwillingly softened. Mostly due to the friendship of one girl, Emily Mackey. Drawn to Emily in a deep way, Norma's perspective on abortion was changing.
"Abortion was no longer a 'abstract right.' It had a face now, in a little girl named Emily." Norma, through Emily was starting to see.
Due to Emily's prodding Norma visited a night sermon at a local church. There she found a relief from every shame and guilt she had carried through the grace of God. That night Norma's identity changed from Jane Roe to a child of God. "Finally it dawned on me." Norma describes, " 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 it. Yet something 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 the blinders just fell off my eyes and I suddenly understood the truth- that's a baby!"
To this day Norma McCorvey works to spread that message. By her ministry Roe No More and her book Won By Love Norma lives to end what was started. Her story reminds us of the lies and heart ache that comes from abortion. But that God can turn anything around, and open every eye to see the baby in that embryo. The life within the womb.
All quotes taken from various Internet articles and a ATS ministries bullitin. www.roenomore.org
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