European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 01, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday september i 1995 commentary the stars and stripes Page -1.7 love is key to the conversion of june Roe the answering in Chine in her Dallas Home now offers the world Only the Plai. Pcs of Telephone messages. There will he no press statement it says. There will be no More Public appear ances from me. Lam going to be regular person Norma this month the 47-year-old, who. Once described herself As a poor half crazy half Ordinary woman who d Bee picked by Fate to become a. Symbol of something much bigger and. Finer than her self went through one of Ellen Goodman the most Public of conversions. Norm a Mccorvey who assumed the pseudonym of Jane Roe in the landmark Roe is. Wade Case the real person behind the class action suit the woman behind a woman s right Tov choose defected to the other Side. She quit her Job at an abortion clinic and moved literally next door to operation Rescue v a -. On network television she dropped the Label pro Choice and picked up the Label pro life. Now she wants to be regular person Norma Mccorvey.",but both sides of this stalemated War have acted As if Norma were a Flag to be captured and lost the head of texans United for life said succinctly and glee fully the poster child has jumped off the the pro Choice groups offered careful press releases supporting her and every other woman s right to de cide while privately they groaned we Don t need Iri real life terms Mccorvey has be come a poster child of Only one thing ambivalence. After declaring that Abor Tion is wrong she said that i still be Lieve in a woman s right to choose a Safe and Legal abortion in the first trimester or if the baby is deformed. V by any pollster s measure she is Stak ing out the Middle ground full of Ameri cans -. Still her drama seems less political than personal. What happened to this woman seems to be less a change of mind than a change of heart i am a rough woman she once wrote born into pain and anger and raised mostly by the daughter of an alcoholic she was sexually assaulted As a teen Ager briefly married at 16 and deserted shortly thereafter. Norma was a 21-year-old carnival worker pregnant for a third time when i be been born she came in Contact with Sarah wedding ton the Young Texas lawyer who argued the Case All the Way to the supreme court. A a Jav. " Mccorvey told Weddington that her pregnancy was the result of rape though at was t. Weddington never told Mccorvey How to get an illegal abortion though she knew., v.-. By the time the Roe Case was decided Norma s baby had been born and like her others Given up for adoption. There was Little affection Between Cli ent and lawyer whose lives were both shaped by this Case. When the conver Sion was announced Weddington said honestly and coolly All Jane Roe Ever did was sign a one Page Legal Mccorvey complained bitterly and hotly that pro Choice folks just never gave me the respect that i thought i de served.". The truth is that after revealing herself As Jane Roe after the Holly Hunter movie after the minutes and sound bites of Fame Norma needed More. I can t really remember a pro Choice person Here in Texas Ever calling me and saying Good morning Norma Are you having any trouble in your life " in March when cration. Rescue moved in next door to the clinic she angrily called them a pack of Bill slowly a relationship grew Between the charismatic Rev. Philip flip Ben Ham the preacher head of operation Rescue and Mccorvey. Over time he called her miss Norma and she called him Flipper. They had both travelled Down a stretch of rough Road. Most important she said he does t make me feel bad about Connie Gonzales the woman who has been Norma s partner for More than 2q years believes that she s Gullible and those people stuck things in her maybe the thing they stuck in her head was ,, a Chain said i love Norma Mccorvey echoed they Are my friends. They genuinely love _ Iii the end this was not the conversion of Jaive Roe. It was the seduction of Norma Mccorvey. The vulnerable some times angry ofttimes needy woman was wooed by the Promise of Rescue of being taken in cared for and loved for herself not what i could do for them.". But we Are not Happy ending to this love Story. Sooner or later the poster child of ambivalence will be forced to choose again by new absolutist these friends Are hinting As one Oke woman said that her theology in t straight yet. She s like a new infant. Sooner or -later.-. His troubled woman eager for attention and eager to escape. It struggling with her own demons will discover that her rescuers also have a Price tag a child for their poster. And sooner or later she will discover again that for Jane Roc there is no possibility of being regular person Norma Mccorvey.". ,. Boston Globo newspaper co. Beauty no skin deep to the one the lamentable cynicism that has taken hold of us is nowhere More glaring at the moment than in the suspicious even contemptuous Public attitude toward one of the great love stories of our time. The tale is classic boy meets girl. They fall in Jove and marry. Then what should have been a Long Blissful future together is tragically foreshortened by death s mean intervention. " i t " of so the boy was 89 and the girl 27, respectively j Howard Marshall it late of the Texas Oil business and Anna Nicole Smith late of Jim s Kristy Fried Chicken in Mexia Texas and late too of those Maga nes you have to hold sideways to get the whole picture. Sure Smith is a natural wonder carrying cantilever Ina to dimensions the nervies Engineer never dared and yes Marshall at their marriage last year looked. Well parched in a Mummy sort of Way. It Mav be easier to see what Marshall saw m Smith than what she saw in him but a the heart has its own an Vav we at hold with the Fine sentiment that Bra Unis Only skin deep and if that goes rather More for Marshall than for Smith with deep goes pretty far after All the principle is nonetheless the same for both. Unfortunately since Marshall s recent death a Nasty squabble has developed by tween his grieving widow and his family Over the half a billionaire s estate it in t As if Anna Nicole did t show her Devotion. Al though the family cruelly boycotted the event she went right ahead with that Nice funeral Home service a churlish few even criticized her backless White gown which was split a bit up the sides and plunged deeper in front than the Stock Market on Black monday. But who can doubt that Marshall would have approved Smith at the risk of some embarrassment to herself seems bravely to have honoured his interests in death As she did in life. Nor was that All. The widow More or less Sang wind beneath under my wings and her Hairdresser Testi fied to her Fervour for the departed so there you Are. What is More Smith had to make personal sacrifices Tom Teepen for this marriage not the least of which was giving up her career of dancing naked Here and there. That selflessness did t or Cal it the family from creating an unseemly fight Over the patriarch s remains one resolved Only when Smith generously agreed to set the for just half of his belligerents had no sooner condoned the Corpse however than the family started throwing lawsuits at Smith further sorry evidence As if any were needed that our lawyer Ridden society will no longer allow even a decent mourning period to interfere with its Diony Sian litigious Ness. One lawsuit demands that Anna Nicole document by Date and occasion All instances wherein you and j. Howard Marshall ii spent the night in the same Home and or room after your time was when a Damsel pitiable in her mortal loss the Light of her life untimely extinguished could count on the Comfort of ministering condolences. In ours a Cranky Stepson demands the lops of her very marriage bed itself. The cad. C Cox news surged. \
