As the number of Americans who view the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade as an abominable decision grows, the percentage of protestors also grows. The medical implications in places like Texas meant women were bound to be less secure and more probable to perish, even if they wished for kids.
Ladies and Gentlemen, anyone who is clueless about what ‘no reproduction freedom’ looks like, please meet the couple, Madame Abbie Perrault, and Maisie Crow who co-directed the magnificent documentary “Zurawski v Texas,” which is bound to assist you in your voting decisions, while balancing your crying.
She was feeling the consequences of her pregnancy fast forward in her life as Austenite Amanda Zurawski. However, no medical professional was going to provide her with an abortion due to a dormant fear. Amanda later developed septic shock because of that negligence, which impacted her future conception capabilities. In retaliation, she launched a lawsuit against the state.
The Center for Reproductive Rights’ attorney, Molly Duane, was given the responsibility of formulating the argument for the case which she knew would advance the interest of many women and families. She knew that spurned Zurawski to seek out women and families damage in similar ways, and indeed they do. It is painful to witness the mothers who have suffered so much, lost not only their children but their dreams and goals, and who now have to go on the bench and retell their pain through their testimony. And it is the role of an advocate, a patient driven in battle to repeal the laws, to actively respond to her fellow fighting mothers’ emotional needs. Duane sees and lives through these mothers’ losses and carries an “I am the storm” bracelet around her wrist reminding her of this grief.
In one of those heroic acts, Samantha Casiano from East Texas, a mother of four, was rightfully forced to endure childbirth to an anencephalic baby with likelihood of survival amounting to zero. This was a severe case of needless agony for both mother and child with awful consequences on Casiano’s life, her relationships and her desire to conceive again. Watching too much screen time involves a mother named Casiano, who is a mixture of mourning, motivation, fatigue, and a sense of despair. After spending this time, one would understand that even the most powerful laws cannot shield someone like Casiano, but what the legal battle can do is provide much need support.
Casiano shares a smile when he mentions the strong and articulate testimony of fellow complainant Austin Dennard, an obstetrician who herself had to travel out of state to end her pregnancy due to a medically challenging diagnosis. And when the state’s lawyer attempts to belittle Dennard’s assertion by asking if Texas Atty. Gen. Ken Paxton has ever said to her face that she cannot have an abortion, Dennard says with calm composure, “I never thought to ask him.” (There is also something profoundly moving about the fact that the complainants in voicing their frustration to explain the intrigues of law acknowledge each other’s success: “I’m so proud to know her,” says Casiano.)
Paxton rarely appears, even in archived footage, directing traffic about such matters, but he had however his anti-abortion say in that busy Texas, so to speak, with his super villain response in controlling the intended designed to advance the blueprint message positivity focused meaning pushing aggression. There may always be some enemies but in an admission scene with Zurawski’s parents, her Republican voting meaning the party not just individual parents turned into an active campaigner for the rights because of the impact on the daughter. However, this doesn’t prevent MI’s. Zurawski from crying more as she is in pursuit of the child and treating the past trauma while being determined for the case and the other women.
There is a limit to how much one can compartmentalize.
It is the messy and overlapping stories of relationship and individual loss that sets “Zurawski v Texas” apart from most of the other issue-based documentaries, as Crow and Perrault move from one facet of high drama in the courthouse to another facet of sheer human suffering. The film brings into focus what has been so admirable about women who have taken this fight. The injured, it turns out, can serve as a strong foundation for the movement for health justice.
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