Wealth & Money Quote by Norma McCorvey

McCorvey’s line isn’t trying to win an argument about abortion so much as it’s trying to win a credibility war about motives. By opening with “I don’t think there is a good reason,” she plants a moral flag first, then pivots to a more culturally potent accusation: not evil, not tragedy, but hustle. Calling it “a racket” drags abortion out of the realm of ethics and into the realm Americans instinctively distrust - commerce disguised as care.

The key move is the naming: “Dr. Jasper.” Specificity does rhetorical work here. It suggests inside access, an origin story, a whistleblower moment. It’s not “doctors” or “clinics”; it’s one doctor, one experience, one villain who can stand in for an entire system. “Just doing it for the money” is a blunt populist indictment that bypasses nuanced realities (patients’ reasons, providers’ ethics, the broader healthcare economy) and instead frames the procedure as predation. “He didn’t care about the women” is designed to flip the script on empathy: the anti-abortion stance gets to wear the language of protection.

Context matters because McCorvey’s public identity was never merely personal; it was symbolic, contested, repeatedly repurposed. Her celebrity came from being “Roe” in Roe v. Wade, then later becoming a prized convert in anti-abortion politics. Read in that light, the quote functions as testimonial theater: a narrative of disillusionment that launders a political position through lived experience. The subtext is tactical: if the providers are corrupt, the debate stops being about choice and starts being about exploitation.