Post by benson on Feb 23, 2022 19:33:13 GMT
Adocumentary about the life of Norma McCorvey — better known as Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade — comes out tomorrow on FX, tracking her life from a plaintiff in the 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in the United States to a “saved” anti-abortion activist. The big reveal? McCorvey, who died in 2017, admits she only allied with anti-abortion organizations because she was paid to do so.
According to the documentary, AKA Jane Roe, McCorvey received nearly half a million dollars in “benevolent gifts” from anti-abortion and religious groups, like the extremist organization Operation Rescue, in exchange for her public conversion to religion and anti-abortion activism. The partnership was hugely valuable for conservatives. “I was the big fish,” she says.
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“Understand that the radical right had to resort to tactics like paying people to lie *because* there was very little opposition to legalized abortion then and it’s a majority position now,” tweeted Ilyse Hogue, president of advocacy group NARAL Pro-Choice America, about McCorvey’s admission. (The vast majority of people in this country want abortion to remain legal and for Roe to stand.)
Ironically, the same people who claim to want to stop abortion also lie about the one thing that could decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies: birth control. In federally funded abstinence-only education classes, students are told that contraception can lead to infertility or birth defects, or even that condoms cause cancer. And for the past few years, there has been a concerted effort by conservative groups to reclassify certain kinds of contraception — like the morning-after pill and IUDs — as abortifacients.
gen.medium.com/the-pro-life-movement-was-always-a-con-966d5db226c9
According to the documentary, AKA Jane Roe, McCorvey received nearly half a million dollars in “benevolent gifts” from anti-abortion and religious groups, like the extremist organization Operation Rescue, in exchange for her public conversion to religion and anti-abortion activism. The partnership was hugely valuable for conservatives. “I was the big fish,” she says.
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“Understand that the radical right had to resort to tactics like paying people to lie *because* there was very little opposition to legalized abortion then and it’s a majority position now,” tweeted Ilyse Hogue, president of advocacy group NARAL Pro-Choice America, about McCorvey’s admission. (The vast majority of people in this country want abortion to remain legal and for Roe to stand.)
Ironically, the same people who claim to want to stop abortion also lie about the one thing that could decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies: birth control. In federally funded abstinence-only education classes, students are told that contraception can lead to infertility or birth defects, or even that condoms cause cancer. And for the past few years, there has been a concerted effort by conservative groups to reclassify certain kinds of contraception — like the morning-after pill and IUDs — as abortifacients.
gen.medium.com/the-pro-life-movement-was-always-a-con-966d5db226c9