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McCorvey[AKA Roe] reportedly understood her youngest daughter’s anger and hesitation. In an unpublished interview that was obtained by Prager, McCorvey said, “How could you possibly talk to someone who wanted to abort you?”
Abortion remained part of Thornton’s[Roe's baby] life long after Roe v. Wade. When she was pregnant at age 20, Thornton said to the Enquirer “that she couldn’t see herself having an abortion,” but described antiabortion activists as “a bunch of religious fanatics going around and doing protests.” But she did not consider herself to be an abortion rights advocate either, she told Prager, because of her birth mother.
“Norma[Roe] was pro-choice, and it seemed to Shelley that to have an abortion would render her no different than Norma,” Prager wrote.
Despite her anger toward McCorvey, Thornton was set to meet her biological mother in person in 1994. A heated phone call between the two, in which McCorvey allegedly said Thornton should have thanked her for not going through with the abortion, upended those plans.
“I was like, ‘What?! I’m supposed to thank you for getting knocked up … and then giving me away?'” she said in the book. “I told her I would never, ever thank her for not aborting me.”
Interesting article for a lot of reasons.
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Abortion remained part of Thornton’s[Roe's baby] life long after Roe v. Wade. When she was pregnant at age 20, Thornton said to the Enquirer “that she couldn’t see herself having an abortion,” but described antiabortion activists as “a bunch of religious fanatics going around and doing protests.” But she did not consider herself to be an abortion rights advocate either, she told Prager, because of her birth mother.
“Norma[Roe] was pro-choice, and it seemed to Shelley that to have an abortion would render her no different than Norma,” Prager wrote.
Despite her anger toward McCorvey, Thornton was set to meet her biological mother in person in 1994. A heated phone call between the two, in which McCorvey allegedly said Thornton should have thanked her for not going through with the abortion, upended those plans.
“I was like, ‘What?! I’m supposed to thank you for getting knocked up … and then giving me away?'” she said in the book. “I told her I would never, ever thank her for not aborting me.”
'Roe baby' lived in Seattle and came forward last year to tell her story
The "Roe baby" whose conception sparked the landmark 1973 abortion ruling came forward yesterday to share her name — and her story, which took a sudden turn in 1989 when she was a teen living in Seattle.
www.seattletimes.com
Interesting article for a lot of reasons.
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