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Decades later, `Roe' struggles to make ends meet
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Jan 13, 2006 09:58am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Kansas City Star |
| News Date | Friday, January 13, 2006 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | DALLAS - Norma McCorvey, the Jane Roe of the historic abortion decision Roe vs. Wade, spent much of her youth homeless and hungry. Three decades later, the abortion fight is still raging in Supreme Court hearings and McCorvey is still hungry.
"We've got a little bread left and some more potatoes. We're just trying to keep our faith together and hope up," McCorvey said this week by phone from the Dallas home she shares with a longtime friend.
Things have reached a financial crisis point again for McCorvey, 58, who became a symbol for abortion rights as the original plaintiff in the pivotal 1973 Supreme Court case that allowed women to terminate pregnancies. Two decades later, she famously switched sides in the contentious debate and became the standard bearer for abortion rights opponents.
Abortion is one of the issues facing Supreme Court Justice nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. in confirmation hearings this week.
Since McCorvey's change in stance on abortion and high-profile religious conversion, she has supported herself by speaking on behalf of her Crossing Over Ministry. But in the past two years, she said, she hasn't been able to make appearances because she's the primary caretaker for her friend Connie Gonzales, who suffered a stroke and is paralyzed on her right side. |
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