"Jane Roe" speaks: "I was paid to speak against abortion."

[George K]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jane-roe-confesses-anti-abortion-conversion-all-an-act-paid-for-by-the-christian-right

Jane Roe admits that her later turn to the anti-abortion camp as a born-again Christian was “all an act.”

“This is my deathbed confession,” she chuckles, sitting in a chair in her nursing home room, on oxygen. Sweeney asks McCorvey, “Did [the evangelicals] use you as a trophy?” “Of course,” she replies. “I was the Big Fish.” “Do you think you would say that you used them?” Sweeney responds. “Well,” says McCorvey, “I think it was a mutual thing. I took their money and they took me out in front of the cameras and told me what to say. That’s what I’d say.” She even gives an example of her scripted anti-abortion lines. “I’m a good actress,” she points out. “Of course, I’m not acting now.”

[Jolly]

Sure.

[89th]

Hmmmm, I’ll take her word for it, but that doesn’t mean much now I guess

[Copper]

Now she'll have to return the money.

[Mik]

Her words and acts do not move me. None of them. The issue stands on its own and is informed by the damage I have seen done.

[Axtremus]

Roe v Wade: Woman behind US abortion ruling was paid to recant
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52733886

The Reverend Robert Schenck, one of the evangelical pastors who worked with McCorvey after her conversion to Christianity in the mid-1990s, also features in the documentary.

The minister acknowledges McCorvey was paid for her appearances on the movement's behalf. The programme says it was as much as half a million dollars.
"I knew what we were doing," Mr Schenck says. "And there were times when I was sure she knew.

"And I wondered: 'Is she playing us?' What I didn't have the guts to say was: 'Because I know damn well we're playing her.'"

Rev. Robert Schenck’s blog post: https://www.revrobschenck.com/blog/2020/5/18/a-movie-that-bares-the-soul-behind-roe-v-wade-along-with-my-own-

In the film, I admit Norma was for me a kind of trophy—a beloved one—but a trophy none-the-less. We held her up, showed her off, paraded her around. What we didn’t do was listen deeply to her pain and beg her pardon for objectifying her.

[Ivorythumper]

What if she was paid to say that?

[xenon]

@Ivorythumper said in "Jane Roe" speaks: "I was paid to speak against abortion.":

What if she was paid to say that?

Well, now it's just a stack of turtles all the way down.

[Mik]

Why would anyone listen to a woman who we already know will say whatever she is paid to say?

Perhaps we should apply that same principle to elections.

[Axtremus]

@Mik said in "Jane Roe" speaks: "I was paid to speak against abortion.":

Why would anyone listen to a woman who we already know will say whatever she is paid to say?

Ah, but I quoted Reverend Robert Schenck, the guy who paid the woman to say what he wanted her to say.

[Larry]

He's not a Reverend any more. He renounced his faith, and became a radical leftist. So did she. Once that happens you can no longer believe a words they say. Because one has to be mentally ill or evil, or both, to be a Leftist today.

[Mik]

You are not getting it, Ax. What she said had no impact whatsoever on my view on the subject even before I knew she was paid to say it. I've already seen the devastation choice can cause.

Now that we do know that it changes nothing for me and never did.

[Larry]

Never get in the way of a Democrat killing babies.

[Larry]

"My body, my choice!"
"Then why is the dead body not yours?"

[Klaus]

What an ugly story. Both sides used her as a tool, and she was playing along. Nobody gave a damn about her as a person or, for that matter, the fate of other expecting mothers and their offspring. It was all about winning.

[Larry]

We only have the word of a former preacher turned radical to support the claim that she was paid. She obviously doesn't view lying as a problem.

[jon-nyc]

“She was telling the truth when she supported my position, and lying when not. I will need unassailable evidence to convince me otherwise.”

[Jolly]

Bottom line? She was what Carville had in mind when he made his hundred dollar bill comment.

[Mik]

@jon-nyc said in "Jane Roe" speaks: "I was paid to speak against abortion.":

“She was telling the truth when she supported my position, and lying when not. I will need unassailable evidence to convince me otherwise.”

Who is saying that?

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in "Jane Roe" speaks: "I was paid to speak against abortion.":

@jon-nyc said in "Jane Roe" speaks: "I was paid to speak against abortion.":

“She was telling the truth when she supported my position, and lying when not. I will need unassailable evidence to convince me otherwise.”

Who is saying that?

Pretty much everybody.