The new FX documentary 'AKA Jane Roe' is a portrait of the woman behind Roe v. Wade. Read THR's review:
, the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion nationwide in 1973 — was on a Christian network that I stumbled on while flipping channels.
McCorvey, it turns out, never had an abortion. As explained in the surprise-filled new biographical documentaryon FX, the landmark case was premised on the right for all women to have practicable access to abortive services. Recent law-school grads Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee sought as their plaintiff a poor woman who would have had difficulty traveling to a state with less restrictive abortion laws than Texas, where the suit was filed, and McCorvey fit the bill.
Sweeney builds effectively toward this twist, while arguing persuasively that being used and manipulated for others' gain was a throughline in McCorvey's often tragic life, which may be why she bristled so forcefully against the perceived lack of appreciation within liberal circles. Sweeney also emphasizes the personal cost to McCorvey's born-again careerism, which included church-mandated celibacy within her decades-long relationship with a woman.
McCorvey was most useful to the right as "Jane Roe," as my teenage experience of watching her speak on TV attests, but she also clearly knew how to provide a soundbite. "The pro-lifers have shown me what it's like to be a human being for the very first time in my whole life," McCorvey tells one reporter after her baptism. "I've never felt so good about being a woman.
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