CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 16, 1995 | SUSAN CARPENTER McMILLAN, Susan Carpenter McMillan is a television commentator in Los Angeles and spokesperson for the Woman's Coalition.
I felt strange watching the face on TV that had for too many years been the symbol of everything I vehemently opposed. It was the face of legalized abortion. The face of tragedy. The face of Norma McCorvey. Through the years I had seen her on various news programs, as the "Jane Roe" of Roe vs. Wade, which in one broad sweep had overturned all protective laws for unborn humans and opened the floodgates of destruction through the ninth month of pregnancy.
NEWS
August 15, 1995 | LYNN SMITH, TIMES STAFF WRITER
She was a ninth-grade dropout thrust at random into the headlights of a divisive social movement--but she was also a powerful symbol. It's no wonder, analysts say, she flipped over last week from the complex, intellectual ideology of the abortion rights movement to the security of a fundamentalist faith dedicated to "saving babies." Norma McCorvey, they say, is a classic religious convert, a woman searching for meaning and structure in an ambivalent world. For many years, McCorvey was the silent, invisible "Jane Roe" plaintiff in the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling.
NEWS
April 6, 1989
Dallas police searched for a gunman who shot out two windows and a glass door at the home of "Jane Roe," the woman whose pregnancy led to the legalization of abortion. Norma McCorvey, 41, who went by the pseudonym Jane Roe in the Roe vs. Wade abortion case, was shaken by the shooting at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, police said.
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March 17, 1996 | Associated Press
Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" of the Roe vs. Wade case who is now opposed to abortion, is accused of pushing an abortion clinic worker in a dispute over a parking space. The scuffle happened March 8 in a parking lot shared by A Choice for Women clinic and the national headquarters of Operation Rescue. McCorvey, who works at Operation Rescue, bumped Tina Gannon's van with her car and then pushed the woman down, police said. Gannon, 35, a secretary at the abortion clinic, was not injured.
NEWS
August 11, 1995 | JESSE KATZ and LIANNE HART, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
The woman whose unwanted pregnancy helped establish the legal right to an abortion nearly a quarter of a century ago said Thursday that she now believes abortion is wrong in some cases and pledged to begin "helping women save their babies." "Once you know the realities of an abortion and what goes along with it, it stays with you," said Norma McCorvey, better known as the pseudonymous Jane Roe of the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 19, 1995 | From Religion News Service
When Operation Rescue opened an office in Dallas next door to the abortion clinic where Norma McCorvey worked, the woman who had by then become the symbol of the abortion-rights movement took to taunting Operation Rescue's leader, the Rev. Flip Benham, with insults and gallows humor.