![]() ![]() When the clinic’s White director takes over the Williams girls’ care and makes an irreversible decision, Civil is thrust into a world of lawsuits and Senate hearings in an effort to seek justice. Civil’s concern for the autonomy of others is juxtaposed against her secret choice to have an illegal abortion, which she’s never fully worked through emotionally despite Ty’s attempts at conversation. But soon Civil’s ex-boyfriend Tyrell Ralsey tells her that Depo-Provera hasn’t been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and she starts looking into whether the clinic’s patients are being coerced into care without full information. ![]() Civil becomes deeply invested in the Williams family, helping them move out of their squalid sharecropper cabin into an apartment and helping the girls’ widowed father find a new job that doesn’t require him to be literate. Civil is assigned two young sisters, 13-year-old Erica and 11-year-old India Williams, as off-site patients-she’ll visit them at home periodically to give them injections of Depo-Provera. ![]() ![]() It’s 1973 in Montgomery, Alabama, and when a Black nurse realizes her young patients are being shockingly mistreated, a lawsuit reveals the systemic horror taking place.Īfter graduating as a nurse, Civil Townsend starts work at a family planning clinic in pursuit of her dream of empowering poor Black women. ![]()
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