The film centers around ongoing grassroots efforts to provide access to abortion across the United States through the distribution of abortion pills in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v.

[1][2] Prior to Plan C, producer-director Tracy Droz Tragos directed Abortion: Stories Women Tell, a 2016 documentary film with similar subject matter.

[1] Some time after Brett Kavanaugh was appointed as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018, a decision which Tragos felt heralded the eventual overturning of Roe v. Wade, Tragos met Francine Coeytaux, co-founder of the Plan C organization, in Los Angeles, California.

[1] During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, amidst recommendations and orders to refrain from visiting hospitals and healthcare centers except when in need of essential services (which, Tragos noted, in states like Texas, did not include abortion procedures, which were deemed non-essential), Coeytaux and others decided, "We're going to put out this call to arms and see if folks in the United States will finally step forward and mail pills to their patients.

The website's consensus reads: "An urgently timely documentary, Plan C is further distinguished by its clear-eyed approach to an emotional and deeply personal subject.