Who's Funding the Abortion Market and Why...? Part II

Jodi Fowler:  Who's Funding the Abortion Market and Why...?  Part II

"Post-Margaret Sanger, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) continued gaining strength after the Supreme Court ruling granting pro-abortion rights decision to women in 1973 via Roe v. Wade. Attorneys Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee were the Roe v. Wade plaintiff’s lawyers and needed a woman wanting an abortion. Jane Roe, a pseudonym for Norma McCorvey, became the pregnant plaintiff while Wade, the defendant, was actually Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade,representing the State of Texas.

Her first child, born when McCorvey was 16 years old, was raised by her mother, her second child raised by the child’s father, and since she gave birth before the court’s decision in favor of broader abortion rules, she gave her third baby up for adoption. McCorvey, a young, pregnant woman without funds to obtain an abortion, claimed her pregnancy was due to rape, but later rescinded that claim, stating she, “invented the rape story to make a stronger case for an abortion.”

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