NEW YORK — Norma McCorvey’s admission that her conversion from the face of abortion rights — as the “Jane Roe” of the historic 1973 Supreme Court case — to an opponent of the practice came with payments from anti-abortion activists might seem to be a blow to their movement.
But the headline-making revelations McCorvey offered in the recently premiered documentary “AKA Jane Roe” stand little chance of denting anti-abortion activists’ momentum in Washington.
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