Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the US supreme court. Eventually the law is changed, but for the character it takes longer than nine months.

• The Mannheim Company
• NBC Productions
• Holly Hunter
• Amy Madigan
• Chris Mulkey
• Terry O'Quinn
• Stephen Tobolowsky
• James Gammon
• Dion Anderson
• Kathy Bates