Oh, No, Another Pro-Abortion “History” of Abortion

By Dave Andrusko

Perusing the Internet this morning, I learned that former New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenberg was to speak in Sarasota, Florida today. What made it interesting is that I learned that Greenberg, pro-abortion to the core, has co-authored a book on abortion due out in June.

It’s titled "Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling," and the co-author is Reva Siegel. According to a story in yesterday’s Sarasota Herald, Greenberg said it is her plan “to debunk some myths about the way the abortion issue has played out in the country and the court during the past 40 years or so. The talk grows out of research I have conducted for [the] new book.”

Well, I googled Siegel and, as you would expect, another pro-abortion “feminist” college professor. One of her interests, it appears, is hammering “paternalistic” legislation that actually tries to help women in crisis pregnancy situations.

Here’s Simon & Schuster’s blurb:

“In this ground breaking book, Linda Greenhouse, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covered the Supreme Court for 30 years for The New York Times, and Reva Siegel, a Yale law professor, collect the most significant briefs that were presented to the Supreme Court, as well as important documents from the period leading up to the decision, and from the immediate aftermath. The book gives readers a better understanding of the context in which the Court decided the case, who the lawyers were presenting the briefs, and what their arguments focused on. The material collected for this book will reveal that the story of Roe v. Wade is more multi-dimensional than is commonly understood today.”

Well, okay. Let’s talk about “context.” Let’s talk about Norma McCorvey.

For those who don’t know, Norma was the “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that opened the abortion floodgates.

Not many people know Norma or who she is. Fewer know she never had an abortion. Fewer still know she became a staunch pro-life advocate.

Care to wager how Greenhouse and Siegel will handle Norma McCorvey? My guess is she will be ignored; her history will be cut off in 1973; or she will portrayed not as a woman brought to our side by pro-lifers who reached out to her, but as a pawn and a dupe.

I know I can hardly wait for “Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling.” How about you?