Speaking of such: Norma McCorvey, ‘Roe’ in Roe v. Wade, Is Dead at 69
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/o...wade.html?_r=0
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Ms. McCorvey gave up her children at birth [she did not have an abortion] and was a cleaning woman, waitress and carnival worker. Bisexual but primarily lesbian, she sought refuge from poverty and dead-end jobs in alcohol and drugs.
She was 22 and pregnant when she joined the abortion rights struggle, claiming later that she had not really understood what it was all about. When she emerged from anonymity a decade later, strangers shrieked “baby killer” and spat at her. There were death threats. One night, shotgun blasts shattered the windows of her home.
But she attended rallies and protest marches in support of abortion rights, worked in women’s clinics, spoke to crowds, wrote two autobiographies and was the subject of a documentary and an avalanche of newspaper and magazine articles. She became a national celebrity of sorts.
She also switched sides, from abortion rights advocate to anti-abortion campaigner. She underwent two religious conversions, as a born-again Christian and as a Roman Catholic, and became in her last decades a staunch foe of abortion, vowing to undo Roe v. Wade, testifying in Congress and bitterly attacking Barack Obama when he ran for president and then re-election.
She was never the idealized Jane Roe crusader many Americans visualized....
A complete turnaround
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-19/norma-mccorvey-plaintiff-in-roe-v-wade-dies-aged-69/8283978
PHOTO: Norma McCorvey [[L) and her attorney Gloria Allred leave the Supreme Court building after sitting in on another case [[AP: J Scott)
After the court's ruling, Ms McCorvey lived quietly for several years before revealing herself as Jane Roe in the 1980s. She also confessed to lying when she said the pregnancy was the result of rape.
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