Roe vs. Wade

Directed by Gregory Hoblit

With Holly Hunter, Amy Madigan, Chris Mulkey, Terry O'Quinn and Stephen Tobolowsky

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.