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Synopsis

Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the US supreme court. Eventually the law is changed, but for the character it takes longer than nine months.

Year1989
CountryUnited States
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reproductive rights · legal reform · socioeconomic hardship · women's autonomy · judicial activism