Pop culture has not been kind to Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff at the center of Roe v. Wade. Cinematic and written depictions of McCorvey have alternated between painting her as a dumb country bumpkin or a calculating con artist, someone who was willing to pump both sides of the abortion picket lines for financial gain. FX’s new documentary about McCorvey’s life, AKA Jane Roe, allows McCorvey (who died in 2017) to tell her own story. But the complicated question of what a country that enjoys access to safe and legal abortion owes the woman whose story made that possible remains unanswered in a documentary that refuses to take sides.\n
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McCorvey seems to view herself this way as well. “Women make mistakes, and they make mistakes with men,” she says, placing the burden of unwanted pregnancy squarely on the shoulders of those people carrying the fetus. In the years following the landmark case, which legalized abortion in all 50 states and launched the careers of both We
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