A new documentary on the woman famously behind Roe vs. Wade states that she faked her pro-life stance for the sake of money.
On Friday, FX will release a documentary titled “AKA Jane Roe” on Hulu, made by filmmaker Nick Sweeney who interviewed Norma McCorvey prior to her death in 2017.
McCorvey served as the plaintiff in Roe vs Wade – the famous court case that afforded women the right to have an abortion – in 1973 under the legal pseudonym “Jane Roe.”
In the 90s, however, McCorvey became a Christian and began promoting the pro-life movement.
According to the Los Angeles Times, in 2016, as Sweeney began work on the documentary of McCorvey’s life, he started making visits to her.
In the documentary, Sweeney claimed that during one of those visits McCorvey made a self-described “deathbed confession,” in which she alleged that she was paid to become pro-life.
“I was the big fish. I think it was a mutual thing,” she reportedly said. “I took their money and they’d put me out in front of the cameras and tell me what to say.”
“It was all an act,” she allegedly asserted.
“I did it well too. I am a good actress,”
In this confession, McCorvey also allegedly voiced her support for abortion.
“If a young woman wants to have an abortion, that’s no skin off my a**. That’s why they call it choice,” she is reported as saying.
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