"Jane Roe" Challenges Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade

Norma McCorvey -- formerly known as "Jane Roe" -- has requested that the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, according to the Associated Press:

"Now we know so much more, and I plead with the court to listen for witnesses and re-evaluate Roe v. Wade (news - web sites)," said McCorvey, who says she now regrets her role in the case. . . .

Two lower courts last year threw out McCorvey's request to have the ruling reconsidered.

But in a strongly worded concurrence, 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news - web sites) judge Edith H. Jones criticized the abortion ruling and said new medical evidence may well show undue harm to a mother and her fetus.

The last major abortion decision by the Supreme Court came in 2000, when the court ruled 5-4 to strike down Nebraska's ban on so-called "partial-birth" abortion because it failed to provide an exception to protect the mother's health.

Justices since then have shown little interest in wading back to the emotional issue.

As CatholicKerryWatch reported last year, Norma became a Christian and renounced her role leading to Roe Vs. Wade. She now heads up Roe No More, an organization dedicated to overturning the landmark case. Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests For Life was instrumental in her conversion to the Catholic faith in 1998.

(Via AfterAbortion).

• "My Journey to the Catholic Church", by Norma McCorvey & Fr. Pavone. (the text of a short supplement to Norma's book, Won by Love).