Norma McCorvey

For 40th Anniversary of Roe, TIME Treats Attorney Sarah Weddington to Softball Interview, Just Like 10 Years Ago
By Ken Shepherd | January 22, 2013 | 1:15 PM EST

As many of you are doubtless already aware, the "Roe" in Roe v. Wade, Norma McCorvey, converted to Christianity in the mid-1990s and became a pro-life activist, repentant of her role in the lawsuit that 40 years ago today legalized abortion.

So you'd think that any interview with McCorvey's attorney before the Court, Sarah Weddington, would include at least one question about McCorvey's change of heart. But alas, that wasn't in the cards with TIME magazine's Valerie Lipinski in her January 22 interview with Weddington. Indeed, the entire affair was a succession of softball question after softball question, concluding with a query about whether Weddington ever goes back to listen to audio recordings of her arguments before the Supreme Court (emphasis mine):

Maddow Guest Harris-Lacewell Describes Abortion Providers as 'Termination Services'
By Jack Coleman | August 8, 2010 | 1:50 PM EDT

That's odd, those describing themselves as pro-choice usually aren't this candid when it comes to abortion.

On her MSNBC show Thursday night, Rachel Maddow spoke with Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell about Republican Senate candidates Rand Paul, Sharron Angle and Ken Buck opposing abortion, including for pregnancies conceived through rape or incest.

Harris-Lacewell said this in response to a question from Maddow --

Media Ignore Planned Parenthood Leader’s Change of Heart
By Carolyn Plocher | November 3, 2009 | 8:19 AM EST

Remember back in July when Norma McCorvey was arrested for disruptive behavior during the confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor? Wait. Maybe not. The networks only gave her a few cursory seconds, if any. McCorvey is "Jane Roe," the plaintiff in the landmark Roe v Wade lawsuit, and the one-time pro-choicer was shouting for the verdict of her 1973 case to be overturned. If that's all the notice given the most famous side-switcher in the abortion wars, there's little hope that we'll hear about Abby Johnson in the mainstream media. Johnson, a Planned Parenthood director in Texas, resigned October 6 after watching an ultrasound of an abortion procedure. "I just thought I can't do this anymore," she said. "And it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that's it."

Networks Barely Cover 'Jane Roe's' Arrest
By Sarah Knoploh | July 14, 2009 | 1:32 PM EDT

When a well-known individual creates a disruption at a highly public, widely televised event and is then arrested, any news organ