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Show Su nday Etc. September 10, 1995 Page 5 McCorvey Says She’s Found a Home By Daniel LeDuc Knight-Ridder Newspapers DALLAS — She won't even have to change herparking place. When Norma McCorvey — better known to a generation of Americans as Jane Roe — announced she was leaving the abortion-rights fold last month to volunteer for Operation Rescue, her physical journey’ wasn’t far. The national offices for Operation Rescue, a leading anti-abortion activist group, are next door to the abortion clinie where McCorvey workedfor the last year, in a U-shaped, twostory brick office building in North Dallas. But McCorvey’s spiritual journey has been much more complicated, full of twists, turns, detours and dead ends. McCorvey, 47, is a womanwithlittle educa- hard-drinking Cajun country of Louisiana and moved to Texas as a child. In her book, she writes of an unloving mother whom she regularly fled, staying at the homesoffriends. By the time she was 16, she had run away from home, stolen from the gas station where she worked, shoplifted, served timein a reformatory, been raped by a family friend, and was pregnant by a husband who beat her. ~ tion or sophistication, a former drug abuser and dealer, an alcoholic, a self-described “rough” woman.Shesays shehasfelt used by Abortion-rights forces say she will be ex- ploited by Operation Rescue, be a pawn in the struggle over abortion, and that her conversion will meanlittle in the national abortion debate. With abortion remaining one of the most divisive and contentious issues in America,it may be that McCorvey’s announcement will have limited influence on many people’s deep- ly held convictions. vey lied and told the lawyers she had been raped. They took the case and told her she could remain anonymous. MeCorvey adopted the pseudonym Jane Roe. She wrote that all she wanted was an abortion and that whenthetrial endedin a victory, the baby was duein less than three months.It was too late to end the pregnancy; she felt betrayed by the lawyers. “TI suddenly realized: This lawsuit was not really for me,” she wrote. “It was about me, and maybe all the women who'd comebefore me, but it was really for all the women who McCorvey was born in the hard-scrabble. abortion-rights forces, which wanted her legal ease to launch their crusade against abortion prohibitions but kept Norma the person at arm's length. Now,she says she has found a home amid fundamentalist, anti-abortion Christians — she was baptized in a suburban swimming pool last month — whoarea strong forcein this capital of the Bible belt. doctors who told her abortions were illegal and refused to help her, until one of the lawyers put her in touch with two female attorneys who were seeking a plaintiff for a challenge to Texas’ anti-abortion laws. Meeting in a pizza parlor in Dallas, MeCor- Still, after all is said and done, Norma McCorveyremains a symbol, albeit for a new cause. But to look only at what she symbolizes misses the story of how she got to wheresheis. From a readingof her autobiography,“I am Roe: MyLife, Roe v. Wade, and Freedomof Choice,” published last year, a picture emerges: A woman whohas faced enormous troubles, who never plannedto be an icon for anything, for whom merely surviving was a daily struggle. were coming after me. . Hadn't (the lawyers) led me on, let me think that I could get an abortion — and then, when everything was going just fine for them, when they had got what She discoveredat a young age that she was a lesbian, and, after divorcing her husband, lived with several women, tended bar in gay hangouts, and fell in with the 1960s drug crowd. Forseveraltie-dyed years, she crashed in LSD-inducedhazes. She attempted suicide. Herfirst child was put up for adoption, her second was taken away by her mother, and her third also was put up for adoption. It was that third pregnancy that made Americanhistory. She was 21 and a carnival barker, leading a drifter’slife, sleeping on the earnival’s flatbed trucks when she discovered she was pregnant for the third time. She wrote that she did not knowthere was such a thing as abortion until a friend in a bar told her aboutit. She turned to lawyers and they wanted — they just said, ‘Sorry,’ as they told me my world had fallen in?” Norma McCorvey, the poster girl of the abortion-rights movement until last month, has neverhad an abortion. She saysshestill supports a woman’s right to an abortion in thefirst trimester, but that “anything past the first trimester, as it was handed down in “Roe v. Wade,” I consider killing.” For herpart, McCorvey now seemsless con- cerned with such inconsistencies and questions and moreinterested in resuming a private, quietlife. ‘I'm notreally pro-choice.J'm not pro-life,” she said. “I’m pro-Norma.” On Newt Gingrich’s Book Trail, His Rules Rule — Associated Press Norma McCervey, knownas Jane Roe in the landmark abortion case Roe ys. Wade, displays the book she wrote. Formerly prechoice, MeCorvey is now supporting pro-life groups. By Martin Merzer Promise Keepers Keep Christian Menin Line By Kathy O'Malley ‘ Chicago Tribune + On July 14, in the midst of Chi- tago’s record-breaking heat wave, thousands of men from Chieago and the suburbs voluntarily left their air-conditioned homes and offices to climb into stuffy tars and drive 410 miles to Minnebpolis. | There was no preseason foot- pall game drawing them there. The team onthefield at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome that weekend included ministers, imarriage counselors and motiva- tional speakers, and the participants werecarrying Bibles rather than playbooks. Spurring these Christian soldiers onward was a two-day conference of Promise Keepers,a 5-year-old men’s organization with éxploding numbers, ‘expanding influence and a rapidly increasing nationalprofile. ‘ When they arrived in Minne‘apolis, the men found themselves t of a group of more than 64,000 thatfilled the Metrodome with tears andtestosterone, song, cheers and laughter. They hugged and high-fived, prayed and rode the crestof an emotional and spirtual wave few had ever experieticed. Mayand 67,000 in Denver’s Mile High Stadium in mid-June. What's it all about? In a world of escalating divorce rates, absent fathers and crumbling families, the Promise Keepers concept is timely and simple: Christian men make promises to take responsibility, love and respect their wives, spend moretime with their families, make and keep commitments, and open up —- really, truly open up -— with other men. In the words of Atella, a psychologist: “It helps you grow in strength and ability to love, which isn’t always easy for a man. Sometimes we're more interested in taking the hill than tackling the relationship.” In brief, the seven promisesof a Promise Keeper are to honor Jesus Christ; pursuevital relationships with a few other men;practice spiritual, moral, ethical and sexual purity; build strong marriages and families through love, protection and biblical values; support the mission of the church; reach beyond racial and denominational barriers; and influence his world, being obedient to Christ's instructions to love God andyour neighbor,and to ‘make disciplesof all nations.” Like any movement that boasts is being played out on other weekends in 12 other cities, with crowds including 72,500 at the a following in the hundreds of thousands, Promise Keepers has its detractors. Some of them show up regularly to protest outside Los Angeles Coliseum in early the ofganization’s conferences. 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