Wednesday I posted about Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton and about how many don't really know or realize what those cases truly did and made legal for abortion in all 50 states.
Today I want to talk about another aspect of both of those landmark cases that
many don't know and that the media has helped to cover up in their almost
overwhelming support of abortion ever since the rulings of those cases back in
1973.
Both Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton were both
built upon lies, deceit, manipulation, and in the words of one of the
plaintiffs in one of the cases fraud. NEITHER case by the admission of
both of women who were used as the plaintiffs in these cases were based on
truth. Which begs the question why with these now known facts have these two
cases not been retried and the judgments and decisions in both cases
reviewed and indeed overthrown with vast new evidence in recent years on so
many fronts that were fundamentally involved in both cases?
"Jane Roe" of the Roe v.
Wade lawsuit, whose real name is Norma McCorvey was a very
troubled young woman in 1969 and was pregnant with her third child that she did
not want. Friends had advised McCorvey to say that she had
been raped and she would then be eligible to obtain a legal abortion
(with the understanding that Texas's
pro-life laws allowed abortion in the cases of rape and incest). But due
to lack of police evidence or documentation, the scheme was not successful and
McCorvey would later admit the situation was a total fabrication. She was never
raped. She also attempted to obtain an illegal abortion but the clinics that she went to had been closed down by authorities. Eventually, McCorvey was referred to
attorneys Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington who took her case
(still based on the false accusation that McCorvey was raped and by the time
the case had gotten to trial the lie had ballooned into that she had been gang
raped) all the way to the Supreme Court. In the meantime in the time that
it took for the case to make it through the courts, McCorvey had given birth to
the baby in question, who was eventually adopted. McCorvey never had an
abortion herself before or after the famous Roe case. Norma McCorvey revealed
herself to the press as being "Jane Roe" of the decision within days
of its issuance and stated that she had sought an abortion because she was
unemployable and greatly depressed. In the 1980s, McCorvey asserted that
she had been the "pawn" of two young and ambitious lawyers (Weddington
and Coffee) who were looking for a plaintiff with whom they could
challenge the Texas state
law prohibiting abortion.
Norma
McCorvey while working at an abortion clinic in 1995 was befriended by several
pro-life advocates and went through a very dramatic change. She was
converted and became a Christian. Since then she has become a very outspoken pro-life speakers and advocate as well. McCorvey has
since dedicated the rest of her life to helping end the Holocaust of
abortion and to see the law that she helped pass overturned.
On January 21,
1998 McCorvey spoke before the Subcommittee on the
Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights of the Senate Judiciary Committee
105th Congress, 2nd Session. (You may read the entire transcript here... http://www.endroe.org/mccorveytestimony.aspx)
She had this to say “My name is Norma McCorvey. I’m
sorry to admit that I’m the Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade. The affidavit
submitted to the Supreme Court didn’t happen the way I said it did, pure and
simple. I lied! Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffey needed an extreme case to
make their client look pitiable. Rape seemed to be the ticket. What made rape
even worse? A gang rape! It all started out as a little lie, but my little lie
grew and became more horrible with each telling.”
"Not only did I lie, but I was lied to. I did not come
to the Supreme Court on behalf of a class of women. I wasn't pursuing any legal
remedy for my unwanted pregnancy. I did not go to the federal courts for
relief. I met with Sarah Weddington to find out how I could obtain an abortion.
She and Linda Coffey said they didn't know where to get one. Sarah already had
an abortion but she lied to me just like I lied to her! She knew where to get
one, obviously, but I was of no use to her unless I was pregnant. Sarah and
Linda were looking for somebody, anybody, to use to further their own agenda. I
was their most willing dupe.
Since all these lies succeeded in dismantling every state's
protection of the unborn, I think it's fair to say that the entire abortion
industry is based on a lie.”
Likewise and even more disturbing in it's own
way is the true story behind Doe v. Bolton. "Mary
Doe" of the companion case whose real name is Sandra Cano was a
pregnant mother who was seeking a divorce from an extremely abusive husband (after being the victim of domestic violence for many years) and was also looking
for legal help in getting her other three children back who had been taken from
her and put into foster care. She never went to the lawyers looking for an
abortion and she has sworn under oath that she never wanted an abortion at all
nor asked for one at any time. She had always been pro-life and didn't believe in
abortion. Abortion was never even mentioned. However she soon became the focal point
of the lawsuit that was Doe v. Bolton and was
used to legalize abortion on demand and the horrifying partial birth
abortions.
Doe allegations stated that on March 25, 1970 Doe applied to the Abortion
Committee of Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta,
for a therapeutic abortion . . . Her application was supposedly denied 16 days
later, on April 10, when she was eight weeks pregnant. Because her application
was denied, she was forced either to relinquish "her right to decide when
and how many children she will bear" or to seek an abortion that was
illegal under the Georgia
statutes.
This is not what happened as Sandra Cano has
since testified in court and before Congress. She states
implicitly "Abortion is against every belief I have. I've never been
for abortion. I never went for an abortion. I was not the person they say I
was. This case was based on lies." Sandra states that
her lawyer, Margie Pitts Hames, tricked her into signing the affidavit
that formed the basis of the plaintiff's charges in Doe.
"I do not believe it is my signature on the affidavit, and Margie either
forged my signature or slipped this document in with other papers while I was
signing divorce papers. I never told Margie that I wanted an abortion. The
facts stated in the affidavit in Doe v. Bolton are
not true."
There
is no record at Grady memorial hospital of her alleged application for an
abortion and the hospital has no records of ever treating Cano or even
reviewing her case. In fact, she says, she was so opposed to
the idea of having an abortion that when her mother and Hames tried to make her
have one later on during the case she fled to Oklahoma until they promised that she could
keep her child! But Hames managed to persuade her to return and appear in
court as a plaintiff in the initial hearing of the Doe case
also under false reasons. Then Cano was told that she would appear in the
courtroom but that she would not get to speak or even tell anyone her name.
Cano stated that "The way she phrased it to me, it was a woman's
liberation right. She said, "If you're working a job, and you're doing the
same job as a man, don't you want to make the same salary?" I said, "Well,
of course." So that's what I thought the issue was about and everything.
It's really hard for people to believe something like that. God knows my heart.
He knows the truth. I really was that naive and that stupid."
After the end of the case and the decision had
been handed down and Sandra Cano learned what all had truly transpired in Doe v.
Bolton Sandra
tried to get the courts and media to hear her side of the story but they
ignored her and refused to let her tell her story. She
fought unsuccessfully for many years to have her case records unsealed but was
unsuccessful. Finally in 1988, Cano went to
some Christian lawyers (one of whom was Michael Farris, who now heads the Home
School Legal Defense Foundation) once again to try and have her records unsealed.
Hames objected, telling the court that there was nothing more to be gained,
that the case was decided 16 years before and that was that. But this time
the records were unsealed, and Farris says he was sure enough of the fraud they
contained that he and attorney Wendell Byrd asked to have the entire case
reopened. That motion was denied, because by then, the law against abortion had
been struck from Georgia's
books.
Other legal professionals and some people in
state legislator have befriended Cano and have worked to verify Cano's story
they have an impressive stack of documents to show she's telling the truth. They
have letters from attorneys and hospitals, Supreme Court transcripts and
affidavits.
Plaques signed by Norma McCorvey and Sandra Cano - March 23,
1997. These plaques can be seen at the National Memorial for the Unborn.
Sandra's plaque at the national memorial for
the unborn reads: "I AM SANDRA CANO, I BECAME KNOWN AS MARY DOE WHEN
THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
RELEASED ROE V. WADE'S COMPANION CASE, DOE V. BOLTON,
WHICH ALLOWED ABORTION FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON.
"I AM AGAINST ABORTION; I NEVER SOUGHT AN
ABORTION; I NEVER HAD AN ABORTION. ABORTION IS MURDER. FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS,
AND AGAINST MY WILL, MY NAME HAS BEEN SYNONYMOUS WITH ABORTION. THE DOE V. BOLTON CASE IS BASED ON DECEIT AND FRAUD.
"I STAND TODAY IN THIS PLACE OF HEALING,
THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOR THE UNBORN, AND PLEDGE TO THE MEMORY OF THESE
INNOCENT CHILDREN, THAT AS LONG AS I HAVE BREATH, I WILL STRIVE TO SEE ABORTION
ENDED IN AMERICA."
-SANDRA CANO, MARCH 23, 1997
Sandra has kept good on her promise she has since then started her own Pro-life ministry and is an adamant pro-life advocate.
In 2003, she went to court herself in an attempt
to reverse Doe, arguing that new laws and scientific evidence
provide justification for overturning the 1973 decision. The U.S. District
Court for the Northern District of Georgia denied Ms. Cano's motion to
reconsider Doe on procedural grounds.
On June 23, 2005, for the first time, members of the United States
Congress heard the truth about the Doe v. Bolton
case from Sandra herself. She testified before the United States Judiciary
Sub-committee on the Constitution.
She testified, "The Doe v.
Bolton Supreme Court decision bears my name. I am Sandra Cano, the former
''Doe'' of Doe v. Bolton. Doe v. Bolton is the companion case to Roe v. Wade. Using my
name and life, Doe v. Bolton falsely created
the health exception that led to abortion on demand and partial birth abortion.
How it got there is still pretty much a mystery to me. I only sought legal
assistance to get a divorce from my husband and to get my children from foster
care. I was very vulnerable: poor and pregnant with my fourth child, but
abortion never crossed my mind. Although it apparently was utmost in the mind
of the attorney from whom I sought help. At one point during the legal
proceedings, it was necessary for me to flee to Oklahoma to avoid the pressure being applied
to have the abortion scheduled for me by this same attorney.
Please understand even though I have lived what many would consider an unstable
life and overcome many devastating circumstances, at NO TIME did
I ever have an abortion. l did not seek an abortion nor do I believe in
abortion. Yet my name and life is now forever linked with the slaughter of
40-50 million babies.
I have tried to understand how it all happened. How did my divorce and child
custody case become the basis by which bloody murder is done on infants
thriving in the wombs of their mothers? How can cunning, wicked lawyers use an
uneducated, defenseless pregnant woman to twist the American court system in
such a fraudulent way? Doe has been a nightmare.
Over the last 32 years, I have become a prisoner of the case. It took me until
1988 to get my records unsealed in order for me to try and find the answer to
those questions and to join in the movement to stop abortion in America. When
pro abortion advocates found out about my efforts, my car was vandalized on one
occasion and at another time, someone shot at me while I was on my front porch
holding my grandbaby.
I am angry. I feel like my name, life, and identity have been stolen and put on
this case without my knowledge and against my wishes. How dare they use my name
and my life this way!
One of the Justices of the Supreme Court said during oral argument in my case
"What does it matter if she is real or not." Well I am real and it
does matter.
I was in court under a false name and lies. I was never
cross-examined in court. Doe v. Bolton is based on a lie and
deceit. It needs to be retried or overturned. Doe v. Bolton is
against my wishes. Abortion is wrong. I love children. I would never harm a
child and yet because of this case I feel like I bear the guilt of over 46
million innocent children being killed. The Supreme Court is also guilty. The
bottom line is I want abortion stopped in my name. I want the case which was
supposedly to benefit me, be either overturned or retried. If it is retried, at
least I will have an opportunity to speak for myself in court, something that
never happened before. My lawyers at The Justice Foundation have collected
affidavits from over one thousand women hurt by abortion. We have filed those
affidavits and a Rule 60 Motion to reverse Doe which is now on
its way to the Supreme Court through the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. I am also giving
you a copy of my affidavit in the case. Millions of babies have been killed.
Millions of women have been hurt horribly. It is time to get my name and life
out of this case and its time to stop the killing."
With it being common knowledge now that both
cases were based upon false evidence and lies WHY have these cases not been
retried and overturned? WHY with the sworn affidavits of both of
these women that the very cases themselves were based upon stating that they
were founded on lies, falsehoods, and yes even fraud WHY do they still stand
and are costing thousands of innocent lives everyday? These cases are nothing
short of a disgrace and a mockery of the judicial system and of the founding principles of
the United States
themselves.
Those who wanted to see abortion legalized pushed
through these falsified cases and under the gross
Unconstitutional judgments that were handed down by those judges in
the Supreme Court they have cost our country more than can ever be truly be
realized. I find especially sickening and extremely sad that the judges in
these cases used the 14 Amendment that so emphatically states that no one shall
deprive any person of life to legalize the murder of so many innocent
and defenseless U.S.
citizens. The 14 Amendment states - " All persons born or naturalized
in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of
the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or
enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of
the United States;
nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection
of the laws."
They took
one small peace of that Amendment (the due process clause) and ruled
by a vote of 7-2 that a right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th
Amendment would overshadow the right to life for countless human beings who were and are U.S.citizens. SERIOUSLY
think about that logically for just a moment. One person's right to
privacy justifies them killing another innocent human being.? Under
that kind of warped thinking wouldn't any murder be justified because
the killer's right to privacy? Just a thought…but it is an extremely scary one! When you open the door to that
kind of thinking, where can you legally and morally close it again for other
situations? When another person's life can be decided on the by the choice or
opinion of another my friends all LIFE at every stage is in danger. It started with abortion but it is quickly going down the slippery slope to opening even more right to life issues. You need look no further than the recent attempts to legalize doctor assisted suicide /euthanasia in several states.
In their decision to legalize abortion which takes the LIFE of an innocent
person who is a child and a citizen of the United States they violated
not only the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of our country
but all of the beliefs that our forefathers founded our great country upon. And
yes it is another person's life. Why that should have been such a hard question
for supposedly very well educated people as the judges and lawyers in these
cases is nothing short of pathetic. Our forefathers realized that children in
the womb were people their personhood didn't come into question back then and
it never should have been an issue in the first place in these cases it's
absurd honestly. Every human being is a person and every unborn child in their
mothers womb is a human being from the moment of conception. It is both a
religious and a well known and accepted scientific fact. Top embryologists,
geneticists, biologists and all kinds of physicians in various
fields agree that a distinct and new life of a human being is present at the
very moment of conception. These are not new revelations they have been widely
known and accepted in the medical and scientific fields for many, many years. You need not look
any further than even the most basic textbooks of Human Embryology and
Biology that "human life" begins at fertilization, or conception,
which is the same as fertilization and they have been there for over a
century.
Read this great article here on the subject http://www.all.org/abac/aq0203.htm by Dr. C. Ward Kischer Ph.D. He states it perfectly in his article, "Abortion,
partial birth abortion, in-vitro fertilization, human fetal research, human
embryo research, cloning and stem cell research are all core issues of Human
Embryology. Yet, in all of the Supreme Court cases since 1973 and at all of the
Congressional hearings on these issues, no human embryologist has been called
as a witness and no reference to Human Embryology has ever been made. Further,
among the NIH Human Embryo Research Advisory Panel, the National Bioethics
Advisory Commission, and President Bush's Council on Bioethics, no human
embryologist was appointed as a member, nor called as a witness.
Justice Harry Blackmun wrote in the Roe v Wade decision: "we
need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins." Blackmun
smeared the distinction between the biological (or embryological) meaning with
the legal meaning, and conflated the two into his declaration. His inference
was that he was talking about biological life without specifically stating so.
From this source followed a science of Human Embryology that has
been parsed and perverted, revised and redefined, changed and corrupted. In
fact, the transcripts of President Bush's Council on Bioethics clearly show how
extreme the adulteration of the science of Human Embryology has
become. The media have especially ignored Human Embryology in their many
articles on the core issues. The media have preferentially published a
distortion of this science while totally ignoring the many references available
for factual information. The impact of this on public policy has been
staggering.
Every one of the core issues identified above is ultimately
distilled down to the question of "When Does Human Life Begin?"
The answer is there in the textbooks of Human Embryology, that
"human life" begins at fertilization, or conception, which is the
same as fertilization. It has always been there, at least for 100 years."
The Declaration of Independence states boldly - "We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
How very sad how truly far our country has fell from it's great beginnings
and how blind, disillusioned, and callus have it's people become when
they would deny the first great right of all, that of LIFE, to their fellow
human beings. For without the right to life all other rights are meaningless and irrelevant.
Those
judges and lawyers are responsible for the legalized murder and legal
holocaust of over 55 million U.S.
citizens and legalized the greatest breach of human rights ever to be allowed.
Because abortion truly is at it's very core the greatest civil rights violation
ever. How is it so different than that of slavery? Both tried to take away the rights of a group of human beings. And just as the evil of slavery was abolished the evil of abortion should be abolished as well!
I pray
that God will have mercy on the U.S. and help us to see
these abominable cases retried and these laws abolished once and for
all very soon. That the men and women of the U.S. will once again embrace a way of life that
allows for the LIFE of everyone not just themselves and their loved ones, but for every
human being.
This is such a magnificent post, JennJ! What unbelievable treachery in the Supreme Court!
ReplyDeleteAbortion is like slavery but much, much worse, both in the numbers of people affected and in the nature of the crime itself. But ironically many of the people who are most horrified by slavery have no problem with abortion. A while back, I saw an interview with a descendant of both Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, who was talking about how excited she had been to vote for Obama in 2008. It was really sad, because she is so dedicated to promoting her ancestors' legacy and honoring their struggle on behalf of the oppressed and our country's finest principles. How could she fail to make the connection with abortion and Obama's support of it?
Hi Aura thank you so much for your kind words on my post! I'm so glad that you liked it. I think many have no idea about the truth of these cases. Just like many have no idea all the truth about abortion itself.
ReplyDeleteIt is pitiful truly that there are so many that don't see the injustice at all in abortion. Like slavery it is an abominable evil. Just like the descendant of Fredrick Douglas you mentioned here if she truly were wanting to stand up for the freedoms of others how could she be for abortion that takes away every freedom and the most basic right of people that of life itself from millions of children all in the name of another's selfish beliefs in what choice really is.
It is awful and we must continue to pray for all of those people the world over that God will change their hearts and their minds so that they may see the truth and tragedy that is abortion. Abortion is the cancer of the United States and we have to keep praying for its end very soon!
I don't actually know what her opinion of abortion was/is, she did not say specifically, but since she was enthusiastic about Obama, she was effectively pro-abortion, at least at the time she gave that interview. It is sad; I highly doubt that Frederick Douglass himself would have been in favor of abortion or Obama. He was a friend of some of the early feminists, but as we know the first feminists were pro-life. There is a pro-life organization that uses Frederick Douglass' name, but it's a shame that his own descendants are not leading such an effort.
ReplyDeleteThe same will be uncovered about this gay marriage decision as well ,,,I call this law-fare,,,its a kind of war fare against the people waged by communist attorneys
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