Everybody's baby.In August, Norma McCorvey, the famed Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade Roe v. Wade, case decided in 1973 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Along with Doe v. Bolton, this decision legalized abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. , was confirmed in Dallas's St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church after claiming to receive a communique from God. "I shot up out of bed," McCorvey said. "This just in from the Big Guy upstairs. He wants me to join the Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church, Christian church headed by the pope, the bishop of Rome (see papacy and Peter, Saint). Its commonest title in official use is Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. ." The conversion was not McCorvey's first. In a tell-all 1994 autobiography, McCorvey, 51, detailed her cycles of life--reform-school gift, anonymous Roe whose 1973 case overturned U.S. abortion bans, abused wife, New Ageist, occultist, and lesbian. A year later McCorvey entered another life cycle when she was baptized bap·tize v. bap·tized, bap·tiz·ing, bap·tiz·es v.tr. 1. To admit into Christianity by means of baptism. 2. a. To cleanse or purify. b. To initiate. 3. by the Rev. Flip Benham into his evangelical Protestant church, warned against lesbianism lesbianism: see homosexuality. lesbianism also called sapphism or female homosexuality, the quality or state of intense emotional and usually erotic attraction of a woman to another woman. , and hired to work in Operation Rescue's Dalas office. |
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