Breaking: "Jane Roe" Norma McCorvey arrested at Sotomayor hearing
Jill Stanek shares the following: From the Washington Post , within the hour: The woman at the center of the Supreme Court's landmark abortion rights ruling was arrested today at the confirmation hearing for Sonia Sotomayor among a wave of anti-abortion protesters who lined the sidewalks outside the Senate office buildings and several of whom made it into the hearing room and disrupted in an attempt to disrupt the proceedings. Norma McCorvey, 61, of TX, better known as "Jane Roe" in the famous Roe v. Wade case from January 1973, was arrested after she and another protester started yelling during the opening statement of Sen. Al Franken (D-MN).... McCorvey... eventually become a leading opponent of the procedure.... Snip From the Journal Sentinal blog : Norma McCorvey... began to scream at Sotomayor that she was "wrong " for her perceived abortion rights views. "You're wrong Sotomayor," she said. "You're wrong."... Earlier, she was ...