THE STREAM/ JOSH SHEPHERD-
Early in February 2017, Norma McCorvey — the famed plaintiff “Jane Roe” in monumental U.S. Supreme Court abortion rights case Roe v. Wade — was near death.
“She knew that she was dying,” said Allan Parker, a public interest attorney who served as her legal counsel for 12 years. “I was no longer representing her, but we spoke as a brother and sister in Christ. She thanked me for doing so much to help her overturn Roe v. Wade. She said, ‘I know it’s going to happen someday.’”
Weeks later, Parker recounted that conversation at her funeral when invited by McCorvey’s family to deliver a portion of the eulogy. He emphasized her decades-long struggle to overturn the ruling that bore her name. Catholic priest Fr. Frank Pavone led the memorial service.
Premiering this weekend on Hulu, a documentary entitled AKA Jane Roe presents a different portrait of McCorvey. Director Nick Sweeney, known for his past TV series Born in the Wrong Body and Transgender Kids Camp, interviewed her starting in 2016 in her hometown of Katy, Texas. Continue reading…
