In a new documentary filmed the year before her death, Norma McCorvey said that she was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to participate in the anti-abortion movement. cal_beu writes that her shocking admission makes clear that no one really knew her
Photo: Cynthia Johnson/The LIFE Images Collection via G Norma McCorvey spent most of her life as a symbol. At age 22 — mired in poverty, a survivor of childhood abuse, and pregnant against her will for the third time — she became Jane Roe: the anonymous plaintiff at the center of Roe v. Wade, an emblem of the cruelty of America’s abortion bans, whose case eventually enshrined the right to choose into the constitution.
But everything around that narrative has been wrong. In a new documentary, AKA Jane Roe, premiering Friday on FX, which was filmed at her nursing home the year before her death, an ailing McCorvey comes out with a self-described shocking “deathbed confession”: The whole thing was a lie, one that the Evangelical movement apparently paid her hundreds of thousands of dollars to participate in. “I was the big fish” to them, she says dispassionately, breathing through an oxygen tube.
But McCorvey was always an uneasy symbol, and struggled with the expectations that accompanied her role as spokesperson for both sides of the issue. She spent years publicly supporting the pro-choice cause, but always felt like she was never accepted by her fellow activists, who were largely upper-class and well educated. “I wasn’t good enough for them,” she said in 1995. “I was a street kid.
McCorvey’s biographer recently told the Times that he thought her ultimate motivation in taking up the anti-abortion cause was more complicated than just financial need — though it’s clear it played a significant role. “It was a desire to be wanted and listened to,” he said. If that was her desire, it was never realized. The story the anti-abortion movement crafted about her was of simple redemption, and in their telling her rebirth necessarily eradicated all prior context.
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