{"id":162809,"date":"2017-02-21T14:24:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T19:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=162809"},"modified":"2017-02-21T14:24:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T19:24:30","slug":"clement-roe-v-wade-attorney-called-norma-mccorvey-a-stupid-piece-of-white-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/clement-roe-v-wade-attorney-called-norma-mccorvey-a-stupid-piece-of-white-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"Clement: Roe v. Wade attorney called Norma McCorvey a &#8216;stupid piece of white trash&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><em>One of my all-time favorite lecturers was Sarah Weddington, the attorney who successfully argued the\u00a0<\/em>Roe v. Wade<em>\u00a0decision. She was articulate, gracious, funny, smart and THE FEMINIST ICON&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230; [A]\u00a0group of students and I took her to dinner&#8230;. Over dessert, I asked, \u201cwhatever happened to Roe [Norma McCorvey]?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sarah\u2019s gracious demeanor and beautiful smile changed instantaneously.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShe\u2019s a stupid piece of white trash. She\u2019s pro-life and a Christian,\u201d she snarled[,] throwing in a few decidedly ungracious and unrepeatable curse words. \u201cShe\u2019s a piece of trash. She was stupid when we found her and she\u2019s worse now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I quickly paid the check and the evening ended. Her words and her demeanor hung in the air that night and honestly, I have never been able to forget them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And that, right there, was the end of a chapter. I would no longer blindly follow a feminist agenda that defined progress on the backs of dead babies. I began a journey from pro-choice to pro-life. Why? Because\u00a0<\/em>Roe v. Wade<em>, the decision that supposedly was the rallying cry for all feminists, was achieved by taking advantage of a \u201cstupid piece of trash[,]\u201d not fighting for the rights of all women.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Melissa Clement, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2017\/02\/20\/roe-v-wade-attorney-sarah-weddingtons-shocking-answer-when-asked-whatever-happened-to-roe\/\">LifeNews.com<\/a>, February 20, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my all-time favorite lecturers was Sarah Weddington, the attorney who successfully argued the\u00a0Roe v. Wade\u00a0decision. She was articulate, gracious, funny, smart and THE FEMINIST ICON&#8230;. &#8230; [A]\u00a0group of students and I took her to dinner&#8230;. Over dessert, I asked, \u201cwhatever happened to Roe [Norma McCorvey]?\u201d Sarah\u2019s gracious demeanor and beautiful smile changed instantaneously. 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