Zurawski v Texas
with the directors and lead plaintiff Amanda Zurawski in personThis clear-eyed documentary follows the courageous legal fight for women's health and autonomy in the face of Texas's strict anti-abortion laws. Discussion follows.
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Due to Texas's abortion laws, which are some of the most restrictive in the country, Amanda Zurawski was refused an emergency procedure during a troubled pregnancy. The collapse of her uterus sent her into life-threatening septic shock, from which she continues to recover. Her tragic story is less rare than you'd think. When Zurawski and attorney Molly Duane took the bold step of fighting the laws in court, 21 other women, all of whom had suffered devastating health effects from the Texas laws, signed on to support it.
Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault's documentary, produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence, profiles mothers, wives, sisters and daughters who have been denied the health care that their doctors, had Roe been in force, would have routinely provided. Premiering at the Telluride Film Festival, this clear-eyed film focuses less on partisan politics and more on the efforts to find solutions to the disastrously vague policies which prevent women from getting the care needed to safeguard their reproductive health—and their lives.
Discussion follows with directors Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, lead plaintiff Amanda Zurawski and OB-GYN Austin Dryden.
D: Maisie Crow & Abbie Perrault, US, 2024, 1h38m
Co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, the Center for Social Impact, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, the Geisel School of Medicine and the Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies.
Programmed as part of Dartmouth's Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, with the theme of "Moral Courage in the Face of Uncertainty"
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