It was written by Alison Cross and stars Holly Hunter and Amy Madigan.

Ellen Russell is a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child.

Denied an abortion in Texas, the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the U.S. Supreme Court.

[1] It was the tenth most viewed primetime television show for the week, with a 17.0 Nielsen rating, and seen in an estimated 15.3 million homes.

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