{"id":1536,"date":"2009-07-13T18:06:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T18:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2009\/07\/abortion-case-plaintiff-arrest.php"},"modified":"2009-07-13T18:06:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T18:06:24","slug":"abortion-case-plaintiff-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2009\/07\/abortion-case-plaintiff-arrest","title":{"rendered":"Abortion Case Plaintiff Arrested at Senate Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; The plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, who became an anti-abortion protester in recent years, was among four protesters arrested Monday for disrupting Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s Supreme Court confirmation hearing.<br \/>\nBetter known as &#8220;Jane Roe,&#8221; 61-year-old Norma McCorvey of Texas began screaming during the opening statement of the newest senator, Al Franken, D-Minn.<br \/>\nMcCorvey&#8217;s suit led to the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, but she later became an anti-abortion protester.<br \/>\nMcCorvey shouted that Sotomayor was &#8220;wrong about abortion.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Associated Press &#8211; July 13, 2009<br \/>\nCopyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; The plaintiff in Roe v. 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