Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Mara, Chris Messina and others star in the new abortion-themed film ‘Call Jane’ released the official trailer, the film will be released in Northern America on October 28.
‘Call Jane’ is directed by ‘Carol’ writer Phyllis Nagy from a script written by Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi (‘The Resident,’ ‘Code Black’) that was on the Hollywood Screenplay Blacklist. Robbie Brenner (‘Out of the Furnace’ ‘Dallas Buyers Club’) and others served as producers.
Based on a true story, the film is set in 1960s Chicago and focuses on a group of underground women who provide safe abortions to pregnant women in need.
Banks plays the female lead, Jane, who accidentally becomes pregnant and discovers the underground organization whose abortions were the spark for the famous ‘Roe v. Wade’.
In 1969, when 21-year-old Norma L. McCorvey (alias Jane Roe) discovered she was pregnant with her third child, friends in Dallas suggested that she obtain a right to a reasonable abortion by falsely claiming she had been raped.
But the plan ultimately fails and Jane decides to fight for illegal abortions, only to find that the police have shut down all the relevant institutions.
She took Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade to court to challenge the Texas abortion restriction statute.
In 1973, the federal Supreme Court held by a 7-2 margin that the Texas Penal Code’s restriction of a woman’s right to abortion violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ultimately ruling that women in Texas had a more liberal right to abortion.
