Court Rejects Motion by 'Roe' to Reconsider Abortion Ruling
Randy Hall, CNSNews.com
Friday, June 20, 2003
A federal court has turned down a motion from the plaintiff once known as "Jane Roe" to reconsider the 1973 Supreme Court ruling on abortion because the request was not made within a "reasonable time" after the Roe vs. Wade decision.
Norma McCorvey, the "Roe" in Roe vs. Wade, filed a "motion for relief from judgment" on Tuesday asking the court to reopen the case.
"Whether or not the Supreme Court was infallible, its Roe decision was certainly final in this litigation," Judge David Godbey ruled in Dallas late Thursday. "It is simply too late now, 30 years after the fact, for McCorvey to revisit that judgment."
McCorvey's attorney, Allan Parker, said his client would probably ask the court to reconsider Godbey's decision. "This is not a case of newly discovered evidence, which must be brought in a short amount of time," Parker asserted. "It's a case of changed factual conditions and law."
After converting to Catholicism, McCorvey changed her position on abortion and joined the pro-life activist group Operation Rescue in 1995.
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