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.
as Ellen Russell / Jane Doe
as Sarah Weddington
as Ron Weddington
as Jay Floyd
as Darryl Horwath
as Jimmy Russell
as Bob Flowers
as Jessie
as Ida Russell
as Terry Bowman
as Supreme Court Judge
as Supreme Court Judge
as Supreme Court Judge
as Jerry
as Linda Coffey
as Supreme Court Judge
as Sherry Roe
as Judge Sarah Hughes
