Norma McCorvey is a woman with a new mission. Once “Jane Roe” in the landmark case Roe v. Wade, she has now started a new campaign to end legalized abortion. Her story is a case study on how abortion affects women.

Last month, McCorvey filed suit with the Supreme Court to reconsider her case, a right plaintiffs are granted under Rule 60 in the Federal Rules of Procedure. A New Orleans federal appeals court unsurprisingly denied her request because the anti-abortion laws the case struck down were 30 years old.

Although agreeing to deny the request, Judge Edith H. Jones still provides hope that one day the Roe decision will be overturned. In her separate five-page opinion, she found the evidence compiled by McCorvey and her lawyer Allan Parker to be compelling. It “suggests that women may be affected emotionally and physically for years afterward and may be more prone to engage in high-risk, self-destructive conduct as a result of having had abortions,” she wrote in the opinion. Judge Jones also cited evidence suggesting that “a baby develops sensitivity to external stimuli and to pain much earlier than was then believed.”

In 1970, McCorvey was the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit challenging Texas anti-abortion law. Adopting the pseudonym “Jane Roe” to keep her anonymity, she was the lead plaintiff in Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court handed down its decision, finding a new right in the Constitution to have an abortion on Jan. 22, 1973. McCorvey was the poster-child of the abortion rights movement throughout the 1980s, writing a book about her life and working at a women’s clinic in Texas.

In 1995, McCorvey became a born-again Christian after spending time with workers at Operation Rescue, a Christian crisis pregnancy center. Since that time, she has devoted her life to the anti-abortion movement, speaking across the nation as part of her ministry Roe No More, recently renamed Crossing Over.

McCorvey now wants to provide justice to women and children, citing research that points to increased suicide rates among women who have had abortions. As we have seen abortion’s negative effects on society during the past 30 years, it is time to change our minds as well about the legality of abortion.

It is remarkable to think about all of the ways technology has advanced during the past 30 years. Today, we have the capability to see these children as they develop in their mothers’ wombs, through ultrasounds and sonograms.

Technology has also made it possible for a baby to survive outside its mother’s womb at progressively earlier stages of the pregnancy.

It is important for women to be aware of the effects their choices can have on the rest of their lives. At the press conference where McCorvey and her lawyer Allan Parker announced their petition to have Roe v. Wade overturned, assembled were 33 women from 19 states who experienced abortion’s negative effects. Not aware of how their actions would come to haunt the rest of their lives, these women all now regret having their abortions.

Judge Jones and Norma McCorvey give me hope that one day this landmark case will be overturned by the Supreme Court. The anti-abortion position is increasingly at the forefront of culture. A New York Times/CBS News poll in November found that 44 percent of Americans wanted stricter limits on abortion and 21 percent favored a ban.

As we continue to see the negative effects abortion has upon women, the Supreme Court may soon find themselves having to make another landmark decision regarding abortion as a result of McCorvey’s new mission.