Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American celebrity Norma McCorvey.
Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey, also known by the pseudonym "Jane Roe", was the plaintiff in the landmark American legal case Roe v. Wade in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that individual state laws banning abortion were unconstitutional.
There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.
We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.
They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot.
It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.
I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.
I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women.
I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.
Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.
The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.
Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.
I don't hate them any more like I used to. I just don't like them very much.
Dr. Jasper didn't care if they got their checkups, their medications.
If they don't care about me, how can they possibly care about anyone else?
The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.
I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.
I am serving the Lord and helping women save babies.
They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, There's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children.
It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.
I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue.
It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.
I am Roe.
I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me.
I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy.
I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.
I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.
I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.
I did not go to the Supreme Court on behalf of a class of women. I wasn't pursuing any legal remedy to my unwanted pregnancy. I did not go to the federal courts for relief. I went to Sarah Weddington asking her if she knew how I could obtain an abortion. She and Linda Coffey said they didn't know where to get one. They lied to me just like I lied to them. Sarah already had an abortion. She knew where to get one. Sarah and Linda were just looking for somebody, anybody, to further their own agenda. I was their willing dupe. For this, I will forever be ashamed.
I deeply regret the damage my original case caused women. I want the Supreme Court to examine the evidence and have a spirit of justice for women and children.
I told the attorneys that I had been raped in hopes that it would speed things up in the court system. However, the wheels of justice turn remotely very slow and a women can just stay pregnant for so long.
I’m Norma McCorvey, the former Jane Roe of the Roe vs. Wade decision that brought "legal" child killing to America. I was persuaded by feminist attorneys to lie; to say that I was raped, and needed an abortion. It was all a lie.
Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women.
But Sarah Weddingtonhad never told me that what I was signing would allow women to use abortions as a form of birth control. We talked about truly desperate and needy women, not women already wearing maternity clothes.
I remained basically anonymous for almost 17 years. I, in those 17 years, I tried to commit suicide a couple of times. I was very ashamed of what I had done, and I was looking for forgiveness not only from God but from myself.
I think it's safe to say that the entire abortion industry is based on a lie.... I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life undoing the law that bears my name.
You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.
My case was wrongfully decided and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation.
I think it's the pro-abortion people who are doing this to collect on their insurance, so they can go out and build bigger and better killing centers.
I used the name Jane Roe because I didnt want my personal name to be involved in it.