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In the early 1980s she began volunteering at an abortion clinic and also began speaking out in favour of the right to choose, becoming increasingly well known. In 1989 McCorvey was portrayed by the actress Holly Hunter in the TV movie Roe vs. Wade, and that same year activist lawyer Gloria Allred took McCorvey under her wing.

However, in 1995 McCorvey befriended Philip Benham, head of the aggressive pro-life organization Operation Rescue, and she soon began campaigning against the right to abortion. In 1998 she converted to Roman Catholicism after coming under the influence of Frank Pavone, who led the pro-life Priests for Life. But in the documentary AKA Jane Roe (2020), a dying McCorvey claimed that she had been paid by anti-abortion groups to support their cause.