ENDEAVOUR FORUM NEWSLETTER No. 111, AUGUST 2003

 

 

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NEW HOPE FOR BABIES 

 

On the 33rd anniversary of her initial lawsuit as the Plaintiff “Roe” in the infamous US Supreme Court Roe v Wade case that gave the US abortion on demand, Norma McCorvey has petitioned the court to reopen the original case, based on changes in law and technology over the last 30 years. “I am sorry that I signed that affidavit”, Norma said. “The case brought the holocaust of abortion, but with this legal action I feel like the weight of the world has been lifted off my shoulders. I long for the day that justice will be done and the guilt from all of these deaths will be removed from me. I want to do everything in my power to help women and their children. The issue is justice for the unborn, justice in this case because it was fraudulent, and justice for what is right.” The motion was filed with the Federal District Court in Dallas. 

In her press conference, Norma McCorvey said that more technology exists now than 30 years ago, such as three-dimensional sonograms which can show women the fetus growing inside them. Whereas the argument over when life begins was a philosophical one 30 years ago, it now is a scientific one, and science says that life begins at concep­tion. “We’re just trying to warn women that they do have other alternatives to abortion.” 

After argung the pro-choice side of the abortion debate for years, Norma McCorvey in 1995 became a Catholic and is now 100% pro-life. More than 1,000 other women who have had abortions are including statements in the petition to the court on how abortions have damaged their lives. Among other effects, the women say they: became alcoholics, hated life in general, were unable to bond with anyone, suffered depression, various medical problems, mood swings, eating and panic disorders, and promiscuity. 

Norma McCorvey’s lawyer, Allan Parker, of the Texas-based Justice Foundation, cited a 1997 decision in the case of Agostini v. Felton, in which the Supreme Court used a post-judgment motion by the plaintiff to overthrow its original decision. Parker said women have abortions be­cause they think they can’t take care of the child. The three major arguments in Norma McCorvey’s motion to overturn the case are:

  1. There is more evidence proving the harmful effects of abortions on women that should outweigh Jane Roe’s single testimony 30 years ago.
  2. The question of when life begins has been answered by scientific evidence within the past 30 years.
  3. Various “Baby Moses” laws in 40 states say the states will take care of a child if the mother cannot.

Even if Norma McCorvey’s petition fails, her effort will shed more light on the myth that abortion is in the interests of women. The abortion industry has tried to throw a “cordon sanitaire”, a kind of 2000-mile exclusion zone around the issue of abortion. They oppose women seeing ultrasounds of their babies, being given any information on the harmful effects of abortion or discussion of alternatives. A woman’s choice is not a free one if it is based on ignorance, as Norma McCorvey has discovered. 

Hope for Boys 

There is hope also that the disadvantages experienced by boys in education may be ameliorated as a result of the Australian government’s inquiry into the education of boys and the publication of the report “Boys - Getting it right”. Mr. Kerry Bartlett, MP, Chair of the Inquiry, is speaking at our public meeting in September, so come and hear him, and Senator Ron Boswell on Small Business and the Family

 

 

 

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