'Roe' sends emails to "pro-lifers" asking $$$ to buy her food/ pay bills

[rainbow4321]

Initial email went to Flip Benham who sent it "nationwide"


http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/011206dnnatroe.173d7e86.html


Feeling desperate, Ms. McCorvey sent a plea to a fellow abortion opponent on Monday. "I wrote him a letter and asked if he could send us a small donation because we were hungry," she said. He then asked for her blessing to forward the request to the people on his contact list.

"The Lord said ask and you shall receive. Norma is asking. Hopefully you can help and perhaps even spread her request to other pro-lifers," the e-mail request read. By Wednesday, the appeal had crossed the nation.

"Tons of people have called and said they're willing to help and will send us a check," said Ms. McCorvey. "It's all just promises so far, but God is good, and he'll feed his children, and they'll help."

"I have been far away from the situation. I don't know what God is doing with Miss Norma," said Mr. Benham, who now lives in North Carolina, where he continues his fight against legalized abortion. "What makes me sad, I guess, is that she would put out a public notice."

[timber84]

1. wtf?

[rucky]

10. she miraculously "saw the light" a couple years ago.

and the RW has been parading her around like a cupie doll ever since.

they're obviously not paying her enough, though.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

2. Good luck with that.

Unless you are still somehow of use to them.

[FreedomAngel82]

12. Bingo

They're just using her at this point and she's trying to milk them. As a Christian and a liberal I'm all for helping people if they need it. I wonder what her real reasoning for not supporting Roe v Wade anymore is. I'm a Christian and support it because I'm not ignorant on the issue of abortion (and for the record I do talk to people about it when the subject comes up).

[no_hypocrisy]

3. "Jane Roe" took on Randal Terry of Operation Rescue in the 80's

as her sponsor in exchange for her renouncing her role in "Roe". I guess he and OR abandoned her like most of the people whom she has depended in her life. (P.S. Is it me or does her letter of solicitation remind you of the plea for help from Linda Tripp from a few years ago?)

[RedStateHell]

5. I'm lost

Not familiar with this.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. In the 1980s Jane Roe was working next door to Randal Terry of

Opration Rescue (a Christian group whose purpose was to criminalize abortion altogether). He knew who she was and her role in the Supreme Court decision. Using strategy, he started to win her over to their side by asking her to come in for coffee. He gave her sympathy for her hard life and was sympathetic that the "feminists" had "abandoned" her after her usefulness was done (i.e., they wouldn't keep giving her money to support her). Soon he had her baptized and she went to the media renouncing "Roe", etc. She had the whammy of turning on abortion rights and joining the opposition. She was paraded out by the new "frineds" for a while, and then nothing.

So, here she is.

[kskiska]

18. Terry is doing the same with the Schindlers (Terri Schiavo)

In exchange for lawyers, the Schindlers sold their souls to the right-to-lifers and are now on the lecture circuit. How long before they're abandoned, too? Then they can write another book on how they were exploited by the religious right.

[Emit]

20. I think it was initially "Mr. Benham"

(from the article in OP) who was working for Operation Rescue next door to where she was working who won her over. She was subsequently baptized by him, and introduced to a lot of the big name Pro-lifers. Nevertheless, yes, so, here she is.

I find it interesting that in her book, she talked about being used by the "pro-abortion" people. And, I also find it really interesting that she, herself, never actually had an abortion. She tried to petition Roe v. Wade in '04, based on the brain-washing she got from the Pro-life religious righters and was unsuccessful:

Norma McCorvey's motion asserted she had new information that would affect the case, but the panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, Louisiana, rejected her claim, said Rhonda Flowers of the clerk's office.

"The case has been dismissed," Flowers said.

In her motion, McCorvey had argued that abortions cause women long-term emotional harm.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:OLQ-gy1e0O4J:www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/09/14/roe.v.wade/+McCorvey+Roe+Wade+overturn&hl=en

I imagine, if the Pro-lifers see any more use for her in an attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade, they'll send her some $$.

[JHB]

16. Short version:

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_mccorvey

Norma was born poor, and has had a hard life. The feminist movement didn't give her much support or credit personally (despite the landmark status of Roe v. Wade), and in the 90's Randall Terry & crew started paying her a lot of attention, until they drew her in enough to announce her "conversion". (Not fully true, but when did that stop propagandists?)

Apparently, they drifted away once they had their propaganda coup, she's facing tough times again, and putting out a call for help.

Personally, I think it'd be a good gesture for one or several feminist groups to "take her back".

[rainbow4321]

17. Here's more...

Long version... snippits of her version

http://www.leaderu.com/norma/nmtestimony.html

"Weird" things started to happen. My co-workers began hearing the sound of "little babies running down the hall." I went out one morning to cut some wild sunflowers for the recovery room, and I was certain I heard a little baby's laugh. I tore into the bush, scratching my arms, looking for the child, but found nothing but leaves. I looked up into the sky and said, "Okay, God, I don't know what you're doing up there, but I wish you would stop this. It isn't funny."

But this "unreal" Flip was telling me that he was a sinner, that he had even gone to a Beach Boys concert! I couldn't connect that with the "fanatics" I had made the rescuers out to be; and it took a while for me to look past the confrontational tactics for which Flip was known. As we chatted outside on the bench between our offices, however, Flip began sharing some stories of his past and out of this vulnerability an unlikely friendship was born.

<snip>
Though every "re-alignment" creates tension, I am still appreciative and respectful toward Flip. Ronda Mackey has joined me in leaving O.R. and the two of us have set up a ministry to handle my increasing invitations to speak and appear at various pro-life events. Instead of being under the O.R. umbrella, I now report regularly to the pastors at Hillcrest Church.

My conversion is one for the ages. The timing was precise--O.R. was next door to my clinic for less than a year (Flip has said, "We moved in just long enough to pick up Miss Norma")--but it wasn't until I had a regenerated heart that the truth of what abortion does could find a place in my intellect. Once that truth took hold, there was no turning back.

[LostinVA]

4. Too bad -- she should have stayed with her loving partner

Instead of suddenly "getting religion" and kicking her to the curb.

I really try to have compassion and kindness for people like her.... it's just so hard sometimes.

[DURHAM D]

6. My, my, my - bless her heart. eom

[CornField]

7. Couldn't agree more. Bless her heart. nt

[notadmblnd]

8. Sounds like she has a nice little scam going

I hope she picks her little freeper friends pockets clean.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. Right

And it's happening again. So it sounds like she's using people and than abandoning them. Not the other way around. Has anybody seen if she's done this with all other people?

[Child_Of_Isis]

11. Pro-lifers?

I refuse to use that word anymore. I refer to them as anti-choice.

[FreedomAngel82]

14. That's what they are

If they really were pro-life they would care about ACTUAL life. They would be for better public education, enviornment, welfare and other social programs that HELP people. But they're against all of that and they hate freedom.

[catmother]

15. that's one of the biggest fallacies the pro-life people use "god

will provide". well god is not doing a very good job when children are going to bed hungry at night.

[bleedingheart]

19. she forgot...once you're born they don't give a shit about you...

[The Doctor.]

21. How very sad.

She did a good thing for women, and this is her reward for reversing herself.
To be used by a moral political faction, then have to beg for support when they are done with her.