Podcast
Strict Scrutiny
The book explored the human reality on both sides of the Roe v. Wade case through the lives of key figures, detailing the story as quintessential American tale involving individualism, religion, and the irreconcilability of sex and religion. The author spent hours interviewing Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe), her daughters, and other important figures involved in the decades-long abortion debate.
This book is at once sleeping and lyrical, but also deeply, deeply human in a way that the political debate about reproductive rights often is not.
— Episode: The Family Roe: An American Story
Episode: The Family Roe: An American Story
The book explored the human reality on both sides of the Roe v. Wade case through the lives of key figures, detailing the story as quintessential American tale involving individualism, religion, and the irreconcilability of sex and religion. The author spent hours interviewing Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe), her daughters, and other important figures involved in the decades-long abortion debate.
This book is at once sleeping and lyrical, but also deeply, deeply human in a way that the political debate about reproductive rights often is not.
The Family Roe refers both to Norma McCorvey-Jane Roe and her three daughters, and then the larger American family, the sort of tens of millions of Americans as I see it who are bound by Roe, though they're on sort of opposite sides of this issue.
And then after she becomes Jane Roe, it's sort of so unbelievably ludicrously American.
The portraits that you paint of these individuals really are detailed in a way that can only be produced if you really have the trust of your subject.
I would say it's such great pains to keep her at a distance. Part of it is understandable she had lied publicly in 1987 she came out and said that hey, back in 1973, I told people that I came to be pregnant with the row baby as she called it via rape that was a lie.
