The Cut - No One Really Knew Jane Roe

It is hard to overstate the symbolic impact of born-again Jane Roe. Her supposed reversal of heart provided the ultimate, gripping moral parable, proof that even the most vocal pro-choice advocate could come to see that abortion is murder and that those who believe in the right to choose are simply deluding themselves. To those who want to overturn Roe v. Wade, Norma McCorvey was — and still is — held out as the archetype of the woman who regrets her terrible choice to terminate her pregnancy. (Never mind that McCorvey was never actually able to get an abortion.) It’s a tidy narrative that capitalizes on many fears at once and, to the anti-abortion movement, proves that women shouldn’t even be given the chance to have such regrets.

But everything around that narrative has been wrong. In a new documentary, AKA Jane Roe, premiering Friday on FX, which was filmed at her nursing home the year before her death, an ailing McCorvey comes out with a self-described shocking “deathbed confession”: The whole thing was a lie, one that the Evangelical movement apparently paid her hundreds of thousands of dollars to participate in.

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This is the best response to the Lana Del Rey fiasco. Hype House, Sway House, Clubhouse, Click House, Drip Crib — the many names of Gen Z influencer houses. President Trump has tested positively toward the negative … whatever that means. A new sighting of Matt Lauer’s hatred tattoo. According to CBS news, Senator Amy Klobuchar has officially been asked to undergo vetting to be considered for Joe Biden’s VP. Crawling with tiny bugs is definitely the mental state of 2020.

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