One of those female pro-life leaders interviewed and then ignored by “Reversing Roe” was
Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life Education and Defense
Fund, the group responsible for the largest pro-life event in the world.
She, along with Yoder, joined me on “EWTN Pro-Life Weekly” this week to
share more about her experience. Mancini said she gave about an hour of
her time with the Netflix producers on what I can safely assume is her
busiest day of the year: the day of the March for Life. Mancini said she
shared with them that to be pro-life is to be pro-woman. Her role in
the national — if not global — discussion on abortion is incredibly
significant.The filmmakers rejected her commentary, apparently because it didn’t suit their narrative.
Pro-life women who expected to be in the film were not; and
women who were not expected to be in the film were. That’s what makes
the film’s tired trope even more dishonest. It’s becoming increasingly
obvious that abortion advocates are the ones who are profoundly
anti-woman. Just look to the story of Jane Roe. The woman at the center
of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade case was oddly missing throughout the entire film. It’s bizarre. She’s central to the topic and the case at hand. But perhaps Roe’s own story didn’t fit the script either.Jane Roe’s real name is Norma McCorvey. Abortion advocates
often try to hide that McCorvey never had an abortion, and after the
case experienced a profound conversion to Christianity. She became a
pro-life advocate for the remainder of her life.The exclusion of Roe in a
documentary named after her own Supreme Court case is a telling choice
by these filmmakers. They are editing history. And they can edit
pro-life women out of the history of Roe, but present-day, pro-life women won’t remain silent about it.
I was in a Netflix abortion documentary — here’s what you didn’t hear
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