{"id":1296,"date":"2003-06-17T15:59:04","date_gmt":"2003-06-18T05:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/17\/roe-vs-wadevs-mccorvey\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:35:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:35:51","slug":"roe-vs-wadevs-mccorvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/17\/roe-vs-wadevs-mccorvey\/","title":{"rendered":"Roe vs. Wade&#8230;vs. McCorvey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14427,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/channels.netscape.com\\\/ns\\\/news\\\/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1500&amp;idq=\\\/ff\\\/story\\\/0001%2F20030617%2F142265621.htm&amp;sc=1500&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/channels.netscape.com\\\/ns\\\/news\\\/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1500&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Prairie sent me a somewhat distressing link today &#8212; it seems that Norma McCorvey, the &#8216;Roe&#8217; of Roe vs.\u00a0Wade, has filed a motion to <a href=\"http:\/\/channels.netscape.com\/ns\/news\/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1500&amp;idq=\/ff\/story\/0001%2F20030617%2F142265621.htm&amp;sc=1500\">overturn the Roe vs.\u00a0Wade decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The former plaintiff known as &#8220;Jane Roe&#8221; in the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized abortion sought to have the case overturned in a motion filed Tuesday that asks the courts to consider new evidence that abortion hurts women.<\/p>\n<p>  Norma McCorvey, who joined the anti-abortion fight nearly 10 years ago and says she regrets her role in Roe v. Wade, said the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision is no longer valid because scientific and anecdotal evidence that has come to light in the last 30 years has shown the negative effects of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;We&#8217;re getting our babies back,&#8221; a jubilant McCorvey said at a news conference while flanked by about 60 women, some who sobbed and held signs that read &#8220;I regret my abortion.'&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Without meaning to belittle Ms.\u00a0McCorvey in the slightest, I find it sad that such a landmark decision is being challenged by no less of a person than the original defendant. With all due respect, I really hope that this motion doesn&#8217;t carry through &#8212; I feel that the ability to have option to have safe abortions when necessary is <em>far<\/em> too important to too many women in too many different circumstances for it to become illegal again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former plaintiff known as &#8216;Jane Roe&#8217; in the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized abortion sought to have the case overturned in a motion filed Tuesday that asks the courts to consider new evidence that abortion hurts women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}