Roe vs. Wade(1989)

movie - first aired/released 1989-05-15 - 100 min - audience 6.0

TV Movie, Drama

Directed by Gregory Hoblit

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.