(CBS News) Norma McCorvey — otherwise known as “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in the United States — said before her death that she was paid by anti-abortion rights groups to later oppose abortion. McCorvey made the stunning revelation in the forthcoming documentary “AKA Jane Roe,” set to premiere Friday on FX.
In an excerpt of the documentary reviewed by CBS News, McCorvey told director Nick Sweeney: “I was the big fish.”
“I think it was a mutual thing,” she added. “I took their money and they’d put me out in front of the cameras and tell me what to say. That’s what I’d say.”