A Private Matter

The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade makes Sherri Finkbine's story all the more important. I had never heard of the story until I watched Joan Micklin Silver's 1992 movie "A Private Matter", starring Sissy Spacek as the pregnant TV host in 1962 who discovered that she had taken thalidomide, deforming her fetus and requiring an abortion.

This is one of the few movies that I know of that focuses on abortion, as the execs usually fear that depicting it will make a movie unmarketable in entire regions of the country. That makes it all the more important for stories like this to get told. Definitely see it.

Also starring are Aidan Quinn, Estelle Parsons, Xander Berkeley and William H. Macy.