With the help of her new evangelical friends, McCorvey created a Texas nonprofit—Roe No More Ministry—from which she received a $40,000 yearly salary. On top of that, Benham paid McCorvey $200 a week and assisted her in selling the rights to her story to the Christian publisher Thomas Nelson, netting her $80,000. In 1999 alone, she earned $25,200 in speaking fees.
“Benham used McCorvey and her so-called conversion as his claim to fame for twenty years,” says duVergne Gaines, director of Feminist Majority Foundation’s. “Now at long last, Benham, Operation Rescue and Operation Save America are exposed for the shameless bullies they are, intent upon denying women their most fundamental rights.”
Norma McCorvey’s supposed conversion supported the anti-abortion movement’s strategy to recruit women who had had abortions to oppose abortion . Expanding beyond their traditional arguments for “fetal rights,” the anti-abortion movement claimed that abortion was harmful to women’s physical and emotional well-being—that women were “abortion’s second victims.” By recruiting women to say that they regretting abortion, the evangelical men in the anti-abortion movement could claim that they were just trying to protect women, obscuring the reality that they were endangering women’s lives and eroding their human rights.
The McCorvey story is just one more example of the long-standing pattern of dishonesty and hypocrisy in the anti-abortion movement., often located nearby real reproductive health clinics. They give the fake clinics deceptive names in order to confuse women seeking abortion health care. They lure pregnant women into their offices, then lie to them about abortion, claiming that it causes cancer, infertility or depression.
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