Norma McCorvey — the “Jane Roe” behind Roe v Wade — made a “deathbed confession” saying she switched her support to the anti-abortion movement because she was paid to do so.
The revelation was filmed months before McCorvey’s February 2017 death for an 80-minute documentary, “AKA Jane Roe,” set to air on the FX cable channel Friday.
“I took their money and they took me out in front of the cameras and told me what to say,” she says, without specifying.
“I did it well too. I am a good actress. Of course, I’m not acting now.”
She added: “If a young woman wants to have an abortion, that’s no skin off my ass. That’s why they call it choice.”
McCorvey, who died of a heart ailment at 69, became the poster child for abortion rights after her case challenging Texas laws that prohibited the procedure except to save a mother’s life made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.
It resulted in the landmark ruling legalizing abortion.
But in the mid-90s, McCorvey switched her support, becoming a face of the pro-life movement.
She quit her job at a Dallas abortion clinic in 1995 and joined the staff of Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion group that had moved in next door.
Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, said to The New York Times that the group paid McCorvey honorariums to speak but that she had not received cash to lie about her views.
“You couldn’t tell Norma to say anything she didn’t want to say,” said Newman, who befriended McCorvey in 1995.
Rev. Robert Schenck — an evangelical pastors who worked with McCorvey after her conversion to Christianity in the mid-1990s — acknowledged in the documentary that she had been paid for her appearances on the movement’s behalf.
“What we did with Norma was highly unethical,” Schenck says. “The jig is up.”
With Post wires



