"Jane Roe" Just Told Me Not to Have an Abortion

Barack Obama isn't the only person in Washington whose schedule has been all discombobulated by healthcare reform. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, planned on staging a "pray-in" at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office on Wednesday, but he's rethinking that now. Apparently the efficacy of a prayer is determined by its proximity to an event; Mahoney said "it wouldn't make any sense to be there all day praying if the vote isn't going to be this week." (He also admitted that there is a "chance that there may be some arrests" at a speaker's-office pray-in, and he didn't seem to want to put his group through that more than once.)

But even though the events most likely to get their participants arrested have been postponed, the delay hasn't stopped activists from making their presence felt. Dozens of blue T-shirted pro-life protesters flooded the Capitol today, praying and lobbying in the halls. The team led by Randall Terry and Norma McCorvey ("Roe" of Roe v. Wade) presented a Pelosi aide with a DVD that showed mangled aborted fetuses that had been dug out of a Dumpster behind a Michigan abortion clinic. While reporters snapped pictures of a "coffin" full of bloody baby dolls that the group carts around (it made an appearance at Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings two weeks ago), protesters announced their intention to stop paying taxes if a healthcare bill that includes funding for abortions is passed. "Abortion is not healthcare," Monica Migliorino Miller said. "We will not pay for the destruction of innocent human life."

As she prepared to leave the Hill for the day, McCorvey made time to lecture Slate V intern Lindsay O'Neal and me about what we need to do if we find ourselves pregnant: "Don't have an abortion. Go to your mama, go to your daddy, go to God. Tell them you did wrong. But don't get an abortion. You have that baby, and you give it up for adoption. But you will regret it if you kill that child."

Video still of Norma McCorvey by Lindsay O'Neal.

 

 

Comments

no taxes for destruction of innocent life

By: patriotleft | Wed, 07/29/2009 - 14:14

I guess "Jane Roe" should have stopped paying her taxes LONG ago, since a large majority of her tax dollars go to support the military, which, guess what? destroys life, much of it innocent...

Tell them what??

By: jennies1897 | Wed, 07/29/2009 - 08:26

You know...there are some parents in these here United States who would rather cut their kid loose and make them society's problem. Telling some people's parents they're pregnant could literally mean the end of their life, as their parents view them as a waste of space teenaged mother. Mine were like that. They're sorry now, and they didn't intend to be. But they really were and they really would have.

"tell them what you did

By: measured | Wed, 07/29/2009 - 04:30

"tell them what you did wrong" - this phrase has so many more implications than abortion. I doubt it extends merely to getting pregnant but goes back further to women having sexual lives that aren't merely to procreate within a marriage.

I hope that the people who break the law are penalised by the criminal justice system - abortion is legal and the freedom to have one is a fundamental constitutional right per Roe v Wade. Tax evasion is illegal and is not a choice. Abortion is a standard medical pratice that is regulated in stages and in accordance with the compelling state interest in antenatal life - the balance has been struck, it is not going to be changed anytime soon and there's good reason to ensure that constitutional rights and freedoms are not denied to anyone due to their social economic position in society.

Aw, I wish my days as an

By: Queequeg | Wed, 07/29/2009 - 02:31

Aw, I wish my days as an intern was that exciting.