In the chaotic months following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 reversal of its Roe v. Wade abortion-rights decision, state legislatures across the country passed tight restrictions on abortion, and Texas filmmakers Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault understood that they needed to document what was happening in their home state. Their film Zurawski v Texas, which debuted at the Telluride Film Festival in August and will be available to stream for free this weekend, offers an intimate look at the lives of several Texas women who banded together to sue the Lone Star State, and at the attorney who represented them. Denied access to abortion care when their complicated pregnancies posed dire threats to their health, the plaintiffs asked the state to clarify what constitutes a “medical…
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