‘AKA Jane Roe’ Director Talks Norma McCorvey’s Dramatic Confession and the Threat to Roe v. Wade
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variety.comBy Will Thorne Staff Writer Norma McCorvey, better known by her pseudonym Jane Roe, drops a bombshell near the end of the new FX documentary about her life.
In what she calls her “deathbed confession,” McCorvey admits that anti-abortion groups paid her to switch over to their side in the abortion debate, around 20 years after she became a pro-choice icon for being the plaintiff in the landmark U.S.
Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade. Nick Sweeney, the director of “AKA Jane Roe,” says he had no idea that McCorvey was about to make such a dramatic confession, and that it represents her “subverting everyone’s expectations one last time.” McCorvey’s story is one of tragedy, abuse and plenty of contradictions.
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