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‘Zurawski v Texas’ Review: A Disquieting Documentary on the First Patient-Plaintiffs Seeking Abortion Rights Since Roe v. Wade
Executive produced by Hillary Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence, 'Zulawski v Texas' is an unflinching survey of Texas’s overly restrictive abortion laws.
The legal battle that Crow and Perrault chart in their conventionally styled but powerful film is against the title state Texas, which almost completely banned abortions on the heels of the Supreme Court verdict, albeit with some exemptions for various life-threatening conditions. But as “Zurawski v Texas” lucidly spells out throughout its economic running time, smartly trading in facts instead of heavy-handed sensationalism, the exemption law is so ambiguous that doctors are left in the dark about whether they can legally provide abortions to their patients, even in medically and logically no-brainer situations — non-viable pregnancies where the baby wouldn’t survive birth, and the mother’s long-term reproductive health would be irreversibly compromised. Knowing that her baby wouldn’t survive, and without the required funds and logistical support to leave the state for a legal abortion, she was made to carry her pregnancy to term, only to watch her suffering daughter Halo live for just four hours.
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