The Catholic Defender: Freedom isn’t Free/America, Freedom always comes at a high price
- Donald Hartley
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"Freedom always comes at a high price.
It requires a generous heart, ready for sacrifice.
We cannot excuse ourselves from our own personal responsibility for freedom.
There is no such thing as freedom without sacrifice."
Pope Saint John Paul II On Our Pilgrimage to Eternity, The Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
Those who were wanting to legalize Abortion originally sought to win States over to their cause, but even the most liberal States where they thought they could get a foot hold didn’t support Abortion.
So, as liberals do when they can’t win with the vote, they took it to court.
This is where Norma McCorvey becomes involved in this tragic story.
Norma McCorvey was raised in a bad family situation where she suffered abuse, by age 13 her parents divorced, and she would drop out of high school.
McCorvey would marry Elwood McCorvey at age 16 where she continued to suffer from low self esteem, drug abuse, and could never find that love that gave her self redemption.
She would have two children, but coming from a poor environment, in 1969, a third pregnancy became very difficult for her.
She ended up giving this child up for adoption. Friends of hers encouraged her to claim this pregnancy was due to rape, and by this time, Liberal feminists Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee were looking for a case they wanted to use to challenge State Laws banning abortion.
Since no State would support their demand for abortion, they wanted to push the courts and they found Norma McCorvey through an adoption attorney?
After leaving the abortion industry, she became a pro-life activist and was baptized into evangelical Christianity in 1995.
Her journey to Catholicism was influenced by her experience within pro-life circles and specifically through her friendship with Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life.
Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff "Jane Roe" in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, converted to Catholicism on August 17, 1998, after previously converting to evangelical Christianity in 1995. She became a vocal pro-life advocate, having moved away from her past support for abortion access. She was received into the Catholic Church in Dallas, Texas, by Father Frank Pavone and Father Edward Robinson.
McCorvey entered the Church during a private Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Dallas, Texas. The ceremony was attended by approximately 60 close friends and family members.
Because her prior baptism as an Evangelical Christian was recognized as valid, she was not re-baptized. Instead, she made a profession of faith and received the sacraments of Confirmation and First Holy Communion.
She was instructed in the faith by Dominican Father Edward Robinson. Father Frank Pavone, the national director of Priests for Life, also played a significant role in her spiritual journey and concelebrated her reception Mass.
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