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I am Roe : my life, Roe v. Wade, and freedom of choice / Norma McCorvey with Andy Meisler

By:

McCorvey, Norma, , 1947-

Contributor(s):

Meisler, Andy

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : HarperCollinsPublishers , c1994.Edition: 1st edDescription: 216 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780060170103

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 MCC

Summary: Meet the plaintiff, Jane Roe, otherwise known as Norma McCorvey: 45 years old, divorced, a lesbian, and a one-time owner of a cleaning service. She has abused drugs and alcohol and was briefly married to a man who beat her. The child of that marriage was adopted by McCorvey's mother, who forbade McCorvey to see her. Employed by a carnival, McCorvey becomes pregnant again and wants to end the pregnancy. Meet McCorvey's friend, Sarah Weddington, an ambitious young lawyer, who encourages McCorvey to challenge the Texas state law that keeps her from controlling her body. Knowledgeable, privileged, and zealous to make abortion legal, Weddington fails to treat McCorvey as a person with real needs. Already two and a half months pregnant when she meets Weddington, McCorvey is led to believe that she can have a legal abortion after the lawsuit against the State of Texas is won. McCorvey hitchhikes across the country and makes friends at bars. Nonetheless, she portrays herself as so naive that she had to look up ``abortion'' in the dictionary. This book, a sad account of an underprivileged and uneducated woman who inadvertently becomes a symbol for freedom for all women, is sure to fascinate.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	San Miguel	92 MCC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	Non fiction		007596

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Meet the plaintiff, Jane Roe, otherwise known as Norma McCorvey: 45 years old, divorced, a lesbian, and a one-time owner of a cleaning service. She has abused drugs and alcohol and was briefly married to a man who beat her. The child of that marriage was adopted by McCorvey's mother, who forbade McCorvey to see her. Employed by a carnival, McCorvey becomes pregnant again and wants to end the pregnancy. Meet McCorvey's friend, Sarah Weddington, an ambitious young lawyer, who encourages McCorvey to challenge the Texas state law that keeps her from controlling her body. Knowledgeable, privileged, and zealous to make abortion legal, Weddington fails to treat McCorvey as a person with real needs. Already two and a half months pregnant when she meets Weddington, McCorvey is led to believe that she can have a legal abortion after the lawsuit against the State of Texas is won. McCorvey hitchhikes across the country and makes friends at bars. Nonetheless, she portrays herself as so naive that she had to look up ``abortion'' in the dictionary. This book, a sad account of an underprivileged and uneducated woman who inadvertently becomes a symbol for freedom for all women, is sure to fascinate.

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