Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff who would become 'Jane Roe,' never did get an abortion—but has changed her mind on whether abortion should be allowed. VFArchive
Coffee, McCluskey knew, was on the lookout for a plaintiff. Sarah Weddington, a former classmate of Coffee's at the University of Texas law school, had been urging Coffee to find a way to file suit against the abortion statutes in Texas. Coffee and Weddington had been academic stars, and both were committed to advocacy on behalf of women. Coffee had clerked for the renowned feminist federal judge Sarah T. Hughes .
Soon after, McCorvey met Connie Gonzalez. They were quickly a couple, two strong, gay women from underprivileged families. McCorvey moved into the house on Cactus Lane that Gonzalez had bought with money earned from spackling and painting. Gonzalez remembers clearly the advice she gave her partner right away: to stop getting pregnant, so that she"could have a better life."continued on to the Supreme Court, oral arguments being heard in December 1971.
Nonetheless, McCorvey remained all but unknown, a woman of 25, living with Gonzalez, 41, in Dallas. The pair cleaned apartments for a living and had an active social life. Daughter Melissa, who occasionally spent holidays with McCorvey, says she remembers the presence of marijuana plants."Their home wasparty to be at," recalls Susanne Ashworth, an executive at a steel company in Dallas who met Norma and Connie in 1982 and became a good friend.
McCorvey wrote in her book that the shooting had been an important hinge in her life. A few days after the alleged event, as the Supreme Court prepared to hear oral arguments ina case challenging recent Missouri laws that put restrictions on abortion—McCorvey flew to Washington to march in support of abortion rights. There she met the feminist lawyer Gloria Allred.had turned Sarah Weddington into a national figure.
Publicly, the pro-choice movement more or less shrugged. McCorvey's former lawyer, Sarah Weddington, said,"All Jane Roe ever did was sign a one-page legal affidavit." But Charlotte Taft, the women's-rights advocate, regrets that the pro-choice camp did not make McCorvey feel more needed or more special. And, she says, evangelical religion provided Norma with something the pro-choice movement could not: the comfort of absolute truth.
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